No document templates by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When fresh Ubuntu users want to create a new document, they figure out that there's no document template installed by default. This is REALLY an important usabiliy issue. Why don't we install text, spreadshett, presentation, gimp project (...) templates by default ?
The new user doesn't want to save a new file in the "Templates" folder in order to install a template...
In order to fix it, we could :
1°) Write By default an .odt, .ods, and .odp file in the Templates folder, and better explain the installation of templates
2°)Create a ~.templates folder that contains all the pre-installed templates, and write a really small program that handles the installation of new templates. If we choose this solution, we'd have to modify xdg-user-
XDG_TEMPLATES_
in ~/.config/
the issue has been discussed in several bug reports already, upstream refuse to add an easy way for any application to define templates because that will lead to all the application doing that and the user having a useless menu full of templates for things which are not used on the installation