Re: Template system

[Fabio Gomes <bugtraq gs2 com br>]

This sounds very cool. But please don't be tempted to put the "Folder"
in the idea of templates. This is an incredible mistake that Micros~1
made. By doing that, they made the folder creation process harder
because there are no shortcut keys and the command to create a folder is
inside a submenu. And, oh yes, the submenu takes ages to load. Creating
folders in Explorer sucks.

But the overall idea of templates rocks! Simple (easy-to-code +
easy-to-use) things like this make great apps.

Em Sex, 2003-12-12 ās 15:11, Alexander Larsson escreveu:
> We've actually decided to not add any more major features for 2.6 and
> focus on polish and fixes since the API freeze, however the other day we
> had a great idea when chatting on irc. It was just so cool that I had to
> implement it.
> 
> So, basically its a way to create new files from the file manager. But
> instead of a plugin system that gives you "New HTML document", "New SVG
> document" and eternal problems with every app in the system installing
> (possibly duplicated) document type plugins, we have a brutally simple,
> but very easy to understand system where you just copy files to the
> $HOME/Template directory (Locations -> Templates) and then you can go to
> some directory and do "File -> Create Document -> Monthly Sales Report"
> (or whatever document templates you normally to use).
> 
> We're aware of the i18n issues with hardcoding an english directory name
> like that, however we've discussed this, and since we've already blown
> this with ~/Desktop, and there are some solutions possible (.directory
> files) we think that this is ok. Its also good for third party apps that
> wants to access these directories, since the hardcoded names are easy to
> find. There is also no need to have a Templates directory. Its not
> created automatically (unless you go there with nautilus), and
> everything works just fine without it, so the keep-homedir-clean people
> should be fine with this.
> 
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