Comment 3 for bug 1746652

Thank you for the response. I think that blog entry is out of date.

I created a default.svg and saved it to home/.config/inkscape/templates. There was no existing default.svg file existing to overwrite. Upon relaunching Inkscape, the modified default template was not launched. I noticed in the home/.config/inkscape folder a preferences.xml file. I suspect that is where some default settings are stored, though I do not think that as a regular user that is something I should edit nor would I have known to edit it. If a document profile system is not created, then options need to be available through the global Inkscape settings menu. (As an aside, I tried to save a default.svg to the above folder from within Inkscape, but Thunar would not show me hidden files/folders from within the Save As window in Inkscape. Not sure if that is an Inkscape or Thunar problem. My work around was to save to the desktop and manually move it over).

Creating a document New from Template pulls the templates from /usr/share/inkscape/templates. The pre-installed templates do not give any details other than a title, so they may or may not be suitable for my task.

I see that I can create a document and save it to /usr/share/inkscape/templates/ and even overwrite the default.svg. But as a regular user this option is not obvious. When I go to save a file there is no option to save as a template and have the save option default to the appropriate folder.

Now that I know I am looking for a custom template, I found the correct reference in the Inkscape manual. As a user I searched the manual for document properties, default settings, etc., and could not find how to change this. From a usability perspective, this could use some rethinking as it has driven me crazy for a long time. As I am a Linux user, I'm not sure how all this works on other platforms.