I'm not sure if I selected the right component, but It would be nice if an empty .kra file would be added to the Templates folder (in the users home) so that I could [right-click > New Krita Drawing]. This is low priority, but also very easy to add (I think) so I hope it gets added soon. Thanks!
*** Bug 453169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If I understand it correctly, you want to add an empty .kra template to ~/Templates, so that it shows up in the right-click context menu in Dolphin, Nautilus or whichever file manager you use to let you create a new .kra file in that directory, right? Well, you can already do it yourself by saving your own .kra file there. I don't see the point of us putting a "default" template in there. Everyone has different requirements for their Krita document -- size, colour model, colour depth, colour profile -- which are to be set from the new document dialog. A user creating a new .kra file from an empty template that we provide cannot set any of these options, so most of the time the user will need to go out of the way to change these properties by opening the file. Not to mention being unable to customize the initial layer structure and background colour. Besides, with our main release being the AppImage, I don't think we can include much desktop integration stuff in it.
Even if it's not a template file, there should still be an option under the "new" section of a context menu. It could just be a link to Krita that shows the window for creating a new drawing. You can include this into the appimage release by making it add the option on first run, or you can simply include it in package releases only - which would probably be better considering that the only reason someone would prefer appImages (other than to run apps on distros without package managers) would be to avoid desktop integration.
I don't see much value in adding a default empty template file: if you want one, you can create one, of course.
(In reply to sfammonius from comment #3) > Even if it's not a template file, there should still be an option under the > "new" section of a context menu. It could just be a link to Krita that shows > the window for creating a new drawing. The menu tells the file manager to copy the template file to the destination folder. You can't somehow make it a link. > You can include this into the appimage release by making it add the option > on first run, or you can simply include it in package releases only - which > would probably be better considering that the only reason someone would > prefer appImages (other than to run apps on distros without package > managers) would be to avoid desktop integration. Well, we have _always_ recommended the AppImage over any distro packages because we ship an older version of Qt (5.12.12) with less weird bugs than Qt 5.15.x _and_ with a bunch of custom patches to fix specific issues that affects Krita.