There was an discussion [1] on ubuntu-desktop list. The summary is that
upstream (GNOME devs) is afraid that that packages will pollute the menu
by too many items. If this happens distributions can fix those packages
though [2][3]. There was an idea how to ease maintaining user's
templates - its mo
closing the request against that's not a bug but an upstream choice, you
should raise the discussion on the lists rather
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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impossible to create openoffice files in nautilus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/23332
You received this
The issue has been discussed upstream again recently, you can read about
it on http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-
list/2008-June/msg00123.html and why they consider having a such
directory not a good thing
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (d
Just read some of the old comments in this thread. Yes, copying files
into the users home directory probably should not be done. Perhaps
extending Nautilus to read something like /usr/share/templates and then
manage that directory closely so it doesn't become a mess for the
average install of Ubunt
Reassigned to nautilus to have someone on the desktop team more familiar
with this topic to determine what should be done. Since no programs seem
to setup templates for use properly perhaps there is a reason this has
been done this way?
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: openoffic
I'm going to reopen this bug to try out an idea - can a "~/Templates"
directory be populated for all users in the same way that the ~/Examples
folder is shipped? It would be really useful for Ubuntu to ship a few
useful templates by default.
Nautilus still includes the "Create Document" feature, w
Is there any chance of re-considering the position on this bug?
- The "Create Document" submenu is familiar to ex-Windows users
- It doesn't work by default in Ubuntu
- They don't know how to make it work (and 95% of them won't try to find out).
I have yet to see an Ubuntu setup with this menu no
