Create New Document: Apps from Office menu

[VA]

On right click, 'Create New Document' should have all the apps from the 'Office' menu.
Similar Bug #372132, without the Templates -> should be simple to achive, and consistant with what most users would expect.

[Matthias Hawran (jahwork)]

I agree, would be very useful.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

I am curious as to if anyone would actually use this? When would Right Click > 'Create Document > OpenOffice Writer Document' be more useful than opening OOo directly?

[Matthias Hawran (jahwork)]

It's just a question of habits.
I know many people, including myself, who are using the file browser
and find out they want to create a new document in the current folder.
This use case is then the way they usually go.

How many times my wife came screaming at me because she did 'create document'
(which does 'nothing' BTW) and then double-click and Ubuntu shows this ugly dialog with
'do you want to view, execute...' (I forget the exact buttons)
and she doesn't know what to do.
I have then to remind her : 'no first open the application...'

This bug fix will really go towards common usability.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Hmm.. I know this isn't in the scope of this bug and certainly not a paper cut, but I thought it would be worth considering other ways of doing this. One way would be to go with your wife's intuition and another would reduce the actions required.
1) 'Right click > Create Document' would create a generic 'blank' icon. Opening this would give a dialog showing a list of common document-type applications (OpenOffice Writer, Calc etc) to open with like your wife expected.
2) Why create the document and then open? Why not 'Create Document Here > (OpenOffice Writer, Calc etc)' and just open the application straight off, with it remembering where to save.

Not saying these are better - just thought I'd suggest.

[Matthias Hawran (jahwork)]

hmm... not sure to follow you, it doesn't matter.

Whatever solution, but the user experience is (usually) windows (sorry)
and you have (always had?) this functionality.
It's as simple as that.

Well we're at least 3 persons (with VA) to have this usage.
We'll see if more people have the same.

[VA (vlad-anuchin)]

e.g. for people that do not know what OO does.

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 12:50 +0000, Lightbreeze wrote:
> I am curious as to if anyone would actually use this? When would Right
> Click > 'Create Document > OpenOffice Writer Document' be more useful
> than opening OOo directly?
>

[VA (vlad-anuchin)]

I would certainty like the option 2)

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 13:33 +0000, Lightbreeze wrote:
> Hmm.. I know this isn't in the scope of this bug and certainly not a paper cut, but I thought it would be worth considering other ways of doing this. One way would be to go with your wife's intuition and another would reduce the actions required.
> 1) 'Right click > Create Document' would create a generic 'blank' icon. Opening this would give a dialog showing a list of common document-type applications (OpenOffice Writer, Calc etc) to open with like your wife expected.
> 2) Why create the document and then open? Why not 'Create Document Here > (OpenOffice Writer, Calc etc)' and just open the application straight off, with it remembering where to save.
>
> Not saying these are better - just thought I'd suggest.
>

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Marked this as a duplicate of the bug mentioned in the summary because both aim to include OpenOffice documents under right-click > 'Create Document >'