Well, I have the same concern Julien has. The ideal situation would be the following. (warning: hypothetical case following) I'm at my computer. I right click the desktop and select Create new, then Text document. A text document icon appears, ready for me to type the name, and once the right name has been written, the right app opens with it. I write some crap. I write some more crap. I wipe the crap with the spell corrector. I click close, and answer Save to the Save? dialog box. Now, I go and locate another document. I want to create a form letter to fill only what's needed to be filled for now on. I open an existing letter, and write some more crap, headers, then save the file. Once I'm done, I right-click the file and select "Use as template". A special nautilus emblem appears. From that point on, I can now use it from the "New" menu without special interaction from my part. Now, as you can see, this gets rid altogether of the Templates folder, and lets the user manage his/her own templates, in a nonobtrusive way (he can make his own template folder). But this would require Nautilus to index templates (or files with a Template emblem). Hey, I was forgetting, we already have that with Medusa! So this could be done! Medusa would need to talk to the FAM daemon so it can be updated to the second though. But medusa is lacking this and since the fam<->medusa deal serves so many other purposes, it would be good if medusa got the ability to index in realtime as well. (cunning laughter) Yes, we can do without the Templates folder. The user can decide whether he puts his templates on a template folder or not. The system won't enforce any magic locations at all. A special app or Nautilus place (in the Go menu) could show a template list. Perhaps the Medusa find tool can find: [x] Files which are templates if you get what I mean. What do you think? El mar, 16-12-2003 a las 20:38, Julien Olivier escribió: > > Me neither. I want the template directory accessible without having to > > jump through hoops. That is, just like a regular Nautilus folder, with > > perhaps a special icon, and if possible, on the desktop. > > > > Yes sir. And perhaps this should be configurable so system admins in > > large corporate networks can lock the Templates folder. > > > > Moreover, for the template folder to be really useful in a corporate > > setting, it needs to see userdefined templates and system wide ones as > > well. > > Now, you can be 100% sure that the first thing most uninformed users > will do is say: > > "What's that templates folder ? I never created it !" > > And they'll move it to the trash right-away :) > > Actually, I think the templates folder should be hidden but a > right-click anywhere should give the possibility to create a new file > from a template. -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: keyserver.net C1033CAD
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