Nautilus

Install Template Documents

Bug #3235 reported by Michael Fletcher
36
This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Add Default Templates

How do I install template documents? If I right click on the desktop and click on Create Document all I get is a file called "empty" and a message "No Templates Installed".

See original description
Michael Fletcher (mikefletcher)
summary: + Add Default Templates
Revision history for this message
Dave Meikle (dmk-uk) wrote :

Please see : https://launchpad.net/products/nautilus/+ticket/35

This explains what is going on.

Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Rejected
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

not an upstream bug

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Revision history for this message
towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

anyone coming by this one, see https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/10435

Revision history for this message
Åskar (olskar) wrote :

This was marked as a dublicate of bug 10435, however it is NOT. Bug 10435 is about creating a Templates folder as default and that bug is fixed.

This bug is about adding default templates to the templatesfolder, a bug that still exists in Intrepid.

To quote someone at the forums:
"Would someone please explain what I am supposed to do wih this essential folder? I read the bugreport and learned that it would confuse people coming from Windows if it wasn't present. Now I am confused."

Simply creating an empty folders with no apparent use is a really bad idea. This bug can be fixed in two ways:

1. Remove the Templates folder so that it is not confusing users

2. Add default Templates to the Templatesfolder

Changed in nautilus:
status: Invalid → New
Revision history for this message
puntarenas (puntarenas) wrote :

I can confirm this bug as I was the one ending up confused and asking for the use of this folder at the forum. Having this folder was important enough for a bugreport that was confirmed and finally a fix was released, so I became curious.

Now that I got the idea I tried to put some templates in on my own and having these templates present by just using the right mouse button to create a new document of a particular type is a nice feature. I believe providing some sample templates would make things clear, although this should probably be done with translation of self explaining default filenames in mind.

Åskar (olskar)
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Åskar (olskar) wrote :

According to Persia at #ubuntu-bugs this would be a good approach:

The issue is that templates tend to be in user folders. If you want to fix that bug, I recommend creating a blueprint for a structure by which there can be system installed templates in Nautilus (may exist already : I haven't investigated), and file bugs against packages that have document formats to have them provide templates to this system location, linked to the blueprint.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

GNOME bugs should be opened on bugzilla.gnome.org

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Duplicates of this bug

Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Related questions

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.