On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:26 PM, petr bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/29 A. Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:21 PM, petr bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2008/10/29 A. Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> It's perfectly supported as designed. Put some template in ~/Templates >>>> and enjoy. If you want to push it to new users, put it in >>>> /etc/skel/Templates and every new user gets them. >>> >>> Where can user put the templates? To ~/Templates dir? No way, he/she >>> does not know that information! >> >> Seems you do though. > > I (as a C programmer) did not know that such directory exist > yesterday. Ordinary users are even less likely to know since they > generally do not have computer science degree. I (as a accountant who > does nothing with computers) still do not know. >
You do not need to be a C programmer nor do you need a computer science degree to open your home folder and see a folder named "Templates", wonderfully translated into the language you read. And you do know, as you just told me what directory it was yourself an email ago. >> Funny how we don't give users credit for being >> able to find out even the most trivial of trivialities. > > How can user know where the directory is or where to find out where it > is described? So here's the problem indicated here: it's not discoverable enough of a feature. So why don't we talk about why it's not discoverable, and try to solve that problem? We can add some documentation to point people here in Help, for example. This is a very good reason to file a bug, like this one I just filed for you: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558435 Feel free to add your notes or suggestions to how we can make this more discoverable. > > Of course, if user knows what directory it is then it is easy. Dialog > with check boxes will be even easier. > >> Save the dialog and button twiddling for something that's >> harder to manage, like which volumes appear on your desktop (as GVFS, >> Hal aren't as easy to manage as a folder). > > I do not see why we can not have both dialogs. They do not compete. They compete for time, from people like me and you, time in bugs, time in I/O, and on. They distract us from real issues, like one I pointed out. We have better ways to spend our time working on Nautilus. It's a very nasty solution to a very trivial problem, which is the entire point I was making. -A. Walton > > -- > Petr > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
