MadMan2k madman2k at gmx.de
Sun Oct 30 12:53:06 CST 2005


nautilus > Go > Templates

everything you place in this Folder will appear in the right-click menu.
But as I might note, Id prefer that folder to be hidden...

M2k

On So, 2005-10-30 at 12:31 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> As promised on irc a moment ago, I'd like to start a brief discussion
> about templates available from the "create new file" right-click
> dialogue in nautilus.
> 
> Particularly annoying for my personal purposes is the fact that I can't
> create a new openoffice document via nautilus... This is a functionality
> that is one of the only ways in which Windows beats Ubuntu for my type
> of computer use.
> 
> I understand that a disadvantage of such functionality is that the onus
> moves onto users to remove it, but I think that this is a better
> situation, which we can easily document, because this functionality will
> not be in the way for most users, and many will appreciate it.
> 
> I filed this bug at #17154 but got no reply.
> 
> I read a previous thread on this list that in general openoffice2-gnome
> functionality is not quite ready yet, and that this is the reason for
> not having gnome save dialogues in openoffice too, so if this is the
> case, I'd like to warmly encourage getting this done for dapper, as
> although I'm sure there are loads of cool things to do for dapper, doing
> the simple things well is really important.
> 
> Matt
> 




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