On 29 Aug 2014 01:13, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro@gnome.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The first thing I do after installing Fedora is open gedit and save an
> empty file named Empty Document into ~/Templates.  This is the magic
> incantation required to add a context menu entry to nautilus for
> creating new files.
>
> Not many users will be able to figure this out, but it seems like
> something that many will want.  I propose adding it to /etc/skel so that
> it gets created by default for new users. Thoughts?

One of the first things I do is delete the Templates directory. I don't ever use it, and would never create a new file by using a context menu entry in Nautilus.

I don't see much value in an empty document template (or an empty ~/Templates), but could be swayed by a good selection of real document templates, e.g. a variety of useful LibreOffice templates, or a good selection of templates for Perl/Ruby/Python/PHP scripts...

The Templates dir magic is hard to discover, so we should probably do something about that: either drop it or populate it.

R
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