<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Daniel Borgmann wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1095867505.23064.10.camel@merlin.stargate.home" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:07 +0100, Colin Yates wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If I right click on the desktop and select Create Document, it states that there are no templates installed. Could this be populated with a list of documents Nautilus "knows" about, i.e. new Ftp connection, new Email (evolution), OpenOffice doc (word etc.)? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Probably not, as this place is exclusively meant only for templates which are created by the user. To add a template, simply open your "Templates" folder (from the Nautilus Places menu) and move any document into it. This document should then appear as a template to chose from. </pre> </blockquote> Ah, I see. <blockquote cite="mid1095867505.23064.10.camel@merlin.stargate.home" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">However, I definitely think that it would be great to have some factory to create new empty documents/objects of a specific type without opening the appropriate application first (to allow a more document oriented workflow). Currently this is only really possible with ASCII files and if the user knows the necessary file extensions (which the user should never have to care for). But doing this correctly is certainly not a simple task. </pre> </blockquote> But surely if the default desktop contains certain applications (email, open office etc.) then ubuntu could also install some default templates? Or maybe I misunderstand? Colin </body> </html>