Hey Michael, On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:47 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: > Are you implacably opposed ?
I'm worried that people end up with menus like these Create Document -> OpenOffice Writer ODF document Abiword ODF document KOffice ODF document times the number of formats, times the number of different document types. Then you have KWrite, Kate, GEdit, Emacs, VIM, Eclipse and god knows what other tools that are going to dump files there. Which is a typical use case on many campus setups where the workstation is typically an "everything" install because it's setup to serve a diverse set of users (for example Boston University does this). So I don't think this feature you're suggesting is going to help anyone, see e.g. how bad this works on Windows. This is why I'm opposed to the feature. One can also argue that it's still not discoverable how to launch the word processor. Well, on my desktop it's in the Applications->Office menu. I think with GNOME main menu on SUSE you either have it in the favorites menu or it's easily accessible by searching for "word processor". Back to the problem at hand, you want to make it easy for your father to create OpenOffice documents. Typically when people use a full fledged word processor they create documents of a given type. Hence why we have the Templates feature. Does OpenOffice save templates to ~/Templates? If so, is this feature implemented in a way that compel users to use it? If not, is this something that the OpenOffice team is interested in working on? Another avenue to investigate is extending xdg-user-dirs so it can create more than just directories; e.g. it could create and manage payloads in ~/Templates just like it does with directories. I think that's a more compelling feature as it allows users to manage these instead of leaving the user with a lot of useless items in the "Create Document" menu. In other words, what I'm trying to say with the last two paragraphs, I think it would be useful to try and work with the Templates system instead of brutally bypassing it. Of course, I'm not a Nautilus maintainer but I thought I'd post my opinion anyway. Thanks, David -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list