1. Right-click Desktop, choose "Create Document" 2. No templates are installed. Expected results: "New Text document"
I'd like to add that the directory/folder "~/Templates" is not created automatically for Gnome users either. If you do manually create that Directory and add empty files to it, you can then create new documents using the Right-click "Create Documents" menu choice. This missing directory coupled with the lack of any documentation in the desktop help, that I could find, makes it hard to figure out how to use this facility. A quick query on google found me this page, http://wlinux.ods.org/GNOME-2.6/ that shows how set things up.
Suggested "Create Document" menu items (and what they actually mean) - Word Processor Document (OpenOffice.org Writer document) - Spreadsheet (OO.org Calc Document) - Presentation (OO.org Impress document) - E-Mail (Evolution Compose Message) - Technical Diagram (Dia Diagram) - Web Page (OO.org Web or Mozilla Composer?)
The Templates directory is created automatically if you use the places menu or go to menu to get there. Its also not meant to contain generic templates that are just a specific type. They are meant to contain user/company specific templates such as "TPS Report". This has been discussed upstream lots of times, and will not change. Of course, i totally agree that we need better docs on this.
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