On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:54 AM, mac_v<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Hi,
I'm not a nautilus dev member but do want to reply on this one. > > The "Create Document" context-menu item has been discussed several times and > has not reached any user-friendly solution. > > The present method of creating new documents is not user-friendly: > 1: User has to rename a file > 2: User has enter the extension of the file type he wants to create. > 3: User has to open the file after the initial select of > Create Document. note: i would instantly disable it if it did open newly created files or i would hack it in nautilus or i wouldn't use nautilus anymore. > 4: Editing the file creates unnecessary 0 bytes empty backups note: what do you mean by this? I do want o have empty 0 byte files from time to time. > 5: If the user renames the file *only* after editing , an empty "new file" > exists. > 6: No-one actually simply creates an empty file, users want to immediately > work on the new Documents. > > An elegant user-friendly solution needs to be achieved, which: > 1: Allows the user to choose which templates to exist in the context menu Already possible: http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm > 2: Opens the template instantly when the user selects from the context menu. against this since it's not always the case for me. Roughly most of the times i make a new file i make a bunch af them at once to edit them AFTER i made them all. And because of the reason provided at "3:" some lines up. > 3: Prevents unnecessary empty backups. against this one as well since i do from time to time want to have "placeholder files". don't just "forbid" those. > > I'v opened a bug report with a proposed solution, and a mockup of the > context menu. > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590666 > > Hope someone can oversee the proposed solution and be willing to work on the > code side of this issue. Comments are welcome. > > Cheers, > mac_v Mark -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
