Bug 422833 - Choose template for creating libreoffice documents
Summary: Choose template for creating libreoffice documents
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2020-06-11 16:31 UTC by livier
Modified: 2025-09-20 09:35 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description livier 2020-06-11 16:31:12 UTC
SUMMARY

Choose template for creating libreoffice documents

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. When in a folder panel, right click
2. "créer un nouveau" (create a new) -> LibreOffice Writer
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT

Opens a libreOffice document that default langage is English,
It does not respect my default language setting 
I suppose it uses a template for new documents that setup the language and is not under my control.
Never found where this template is setup, I should have change it.

EXPECTED RESULT

Would like to choose witch model to use for creation of writers documents.
it should be the default model I setup in LibreOffice Options. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: KDE neon 5.19
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.70.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2
Kernel Version: 4.15.0-66-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 2 × AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor
Memory: 11,5 Gio de mémoire vive
Graphics Processor: AMD RS880 


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Wolfgang Bauer 2020-07-01 10:04:07 UTC
KDE doesn't ship any template for creating libreoffice documents AFAIK.

(Well, calligra comes with templates for ODF files, but they don't have any mention of "LibreOffice"... ;-) )

So this is rather an issue in your distribution IMHO.
Reassigning to KDE Neon therefore.

You should be able to find the template files in /usr/share/templates/ (and /usr/share/templates/.source/) though, I suppose.
Comment 2 livier 2020-07-02 01:22:57 UTC
Thanks, 
knowing to find the template files in /usr/share/templates/ ...
helped

It would be cool if I could choice the template used at user side, as 
~/.local/templates or so.

Thanks doing the best

Have a nice day
Comment 3 Wolfgang Bauer 2020-07-02 08:21:20 UTC
> It would be cool if I could choice the template used at user side, as 
> ~/.local/templates or so.
~/.local/share/templates/ is respected too (and complements /usr/share/), so it is indeed possible to add or modify templates at user side.

Files in /usr/share/ are overridden by files with the same name in ~/.local/share/, so you can copy existing ones and modify them to your likings, or add completely new templates in ~/.local/share/templates/.

Note that a template usually consists of two files:
- share/templates/xxx.desktop that describes the template
- share/.source/something that is the actual file that gets copied when you choose "Create New"

The former can refer to the latter via a line like this:
URL=.source/TextDocument.odt

See also https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=224&t=119342 (this was from KDE4 times, but it should still apply, only the locations have changed)
Comment 4 livier 2020-07-02 14:43:41 UTC
> Files in /usr/share/ are overridden by files with the same name in ~/.local/share/

Good to know the overidden way. 
Why did not I undertand it before, never found it in documentation !
Is there a place for that kind of things ?
otherwise it should be good to share this info ;-)

Question, 
Is it a standart Linux possibility, 
or debian/ubuntu specific, 
or kde specific ... ? 

Thanks for all explications
and sory for my english ;-)
Comment 5 Carlos De Maine 2025-09-20 09:35:57 UTC
Thank you for your bug report! 
However this bug report was created/provided previous to 01/01/2023 and also has not received any updates since  before 01/01/2025. 
Unfortunately KDE neon no longer provides updates for anything older than noble 24.04 based edition's.
Please upgrade to KDE neon noble and if you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to an active version, feel free to re-open this bug report.
Thanks for understanding!