I discussed several design possibilities with Sebastien. We reached the following consensus:
1. Ship all templates in an ubuntu-document-templates package. Iniitally this will have templates for .odt and .ods. + Easy to uninstall templates package + existing MIME applications will automatically select abiword/OO writer/etc., whatever your preference is + if you don't have a matching app installed, nautilus will suggest to install that app + As a distro we retain tight control about which templates we ship by default, and thus avoid cluttering the menu with dozens of entries. 2. Templates are shipped in a system directory by the -templates package, and nautilus will be patched to look in that as well. + No dirty tricks with changing /etc/skel, and making this work on upgrades as well. - Harder to opt-out for a user. However, this is not serious, since it's not any worse than the rather useless default that we provide right now. We can provide a gconf key for "use system templates", or the user can uninstall ubuntu-document-templates if he wants to to do. -- "Create Document" Templates difficult to use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372132 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs