Bug 400263

Summary:	Better workflow for creating template files
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi <jagannathante>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ashark, herzenschein, kdelibs-bugs, nate, thomas.surrel
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	5.51.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi 2018-10-24 20:09:17 UTC

The idea is to easily add entries to the "Create New" context menu in dolphin. Currently for that one needs to:
1. create a template somewhere.
2. write a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/templates like https://j605.tk/blog/post/shorts/new-templates-in-dolphin/

One solution would be to skip the second step and just show files in ~/Templates. Another option is to provide an easier way to create them by abstracting the desktop file creation from the user.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-10-25 04:10:45 UTC

> just show files in ~/Templates
That one makes sense to me. Then we wouldn't have to create a whole desktop file creation UI.

Comment 2 Andrew Shark 2021-11-01 08:40:51 UTC

There is a "KDE 5 Template Manager" (see here: https://store.kde.org/p/1454391) downloadable service menu (extension). It solves this exact task. But I agree, it is rather hard to find when you do not know it exists. I was searching for the solution for this task, searched existing extensions.  I found an obsolete extension for this task, ported it to kde 5. And then at a publish time, discovered there is "KDE 5 Template Manager". For some reason, I did not found it at a first search.

Maybe dolphin could "recommend" in some way to install certain extensions to get "proper experience"?

Comment 3 Thiago Sueto 2023-11-20 16:29:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 191632 ***