Re: Template system
- From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Cc: nautilus-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Template system
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:40:40 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> different applications. They'll still need to learn how to use them,
> but the process will be assisted because each time they create, say, a
> Letter, the same application will open (or the application they chose on
> the app list I proposed a few mails ago).
Shouldn't that be handled through the Preferred Apps panel? Or is that
about to be thrown overboard? (I wouldn't mind, it's borked in its current
incarnation anyway.)
> People *don't* know that they need OpenOffice Writer to write a Letter.
> People also *don't* know about the New menu and the templates. But the
> New menu and the Templates fulfill two functions:
One side-note: I don't know if this had been considered already... but as
you may know, the Workplace Shell (OS/2) has a pretty complete Templates
system, but it also offers you the 'Create another...' context menu items
for known file types. So if I had a StarOffice file, I could right click
its icon, select 'Create another...' and have StarOffice open with an
empty document. One could consider this as "implicit templates".
My 2 eurocents,
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Reinout van Schouwen Artificial Intelligence student
email: reinout cs vu nl mobile phone: +31-6-44360778
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