Nautilus Template files

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I have 3 files in there, that I put there long ago, never knew what it
was.  I put an AbiWord Template (.awt) and two OOImpress (.sti)
templates in there.  The New-> menu still says "empty file"

MadMan2k wrote:
> 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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