Comment 4 for bug 388954

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.