Re: Template system

[Rudd-O DragonFear <rudd-o veronica amauta>]

Please talk to the KDE guys.  They already have a working implementation
of this, and it would be wonderful if GNOME/KDE could 1. code less, get
more  2. share the template data source  3. define a standard.  Don't
just code and commit this without analyzing the chance that Nautilus can
use the KDE template dir.

El vie, 12-12-2003 a las 13:11, Alexander Larsson escribió:
> 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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