Re: [Nautilus-list] How to create a new file through nautilus?

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 10:43  AM, Keith F Irwin wrote:

> How about, then, something similar to the scripts directory in which we
> can place blank "templates" of the docs we want.  I (as a user) could add
> a blank abiword or gnumeric or text file there and have it show up on the
> "new file" sub-menu.  Nautilus would then copy the file over, making sure
> the name was unique.

Sounds OK. Was never one of my favorite features, but some people will 
like it. I guess Windows has something like this in the a submenu under 
New. On Macintosh (and on Lisa before that), there was a feature like this 
called "stationery" that didn't create special menu items.

> Is something like this in the works?

No.

> Anyway, just curious.  I wouldn't mind implementing the features myself,
> but I have to admit that I've not written in C since forever, and never in
> C++.  (I'm a java, pascal, perl, python and hopefully soon lisp type of
> person.)

There's no C++ in Nautilus.

Contributions to Nautilus are appreciated. If you start working on this, 
keep us posted here on the list so I can help steer you in the right 
direction.

    -- Darin