One solution that comes to mind would be to add an option to the bottom
of the "Create New Document" menu called "Create New Template". Here,
the user could choose from a list of document types such as "LibreOffice
Presentation", "LibreOffice Spreadsheet", etc. I'm not sure how the
available template type would be exposed by the applications to the
menu.
Once the user selects one option, a dialog could appear and ask them to
name their new document, after when Nautilus could open the ~/Templates
folder with the newly created and named template within. In this way,
the user would figure out how the templates system was supposed to work
without having to visit a website or ask someone. Perhaps the name
dialog could also offer some sort of brief explanation of what happens
next.
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Milestone: None => quantal-6-file-management
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372132
Title:
"Create Document" Templates difficult to use
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
Confirmed
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The "Create Document" right-click option has only "Empty file" as an
option and a rather puzzling "No templates installed" second option.
I expected to find templates for the most common Openoffice file
types.
This is confusing for non-expert users and can lead to problems.
Particularly to those used to the windows behaviour.
I suggest creating a group of templates (openoffice word processor,
spreadsheet, presentation) as the default set to ease the newcomers
difficulties.
As a matter of fact, a friend I introduced to Linux just realized all the
documents she created using that method didn't have any format. She used a
simple (although wrong) method to create Openoffice files.
#1 Right Click inside folder - Create document - Empty File (Just as any
windows user could do)
#2 Rename document to whatever she wanted - Ex: Doc1.odt (this is a somehow
advanced behaviour but still common for windows users).
#3 Open file and ignore ASCII Filter Option message (whatever - OK)
#4 Write in the document.
#5 Save - Ignore warning about formating and Click on "Keep Current Format"
instead of "Save in ODF format" (this could be seen as a huge mistake, and it
is, but also a common behaviour if you are used to open DOC files with
Openoffice. You end up ignoring those warnings).
What I am proposing is to put template files for the most common
document formats (at least openoffice ones) into the Templates folder
by default. This way, the windows newcomers would find a Create
Openoffice Word file option and avoid very damaging mistakes as the
one explained before. Also, this would fill an usability gap between
linux and windows.
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