Ubuntu Wiki

Use-Cases

• User A right clicks in nautilus, selects "create a document ..." and wants to get a list of document types to be created
• User B is concerned that the list of suggested document templates for the "create a document ..." will get too long quickly
• User S only wants to see his user configured templates and wants to be able to disable system shipped document templates easily

Design

Plan A - ship templates in application package

• enable system templates support in nautilus
• ship templates in application packages
• policy: require package maintainers to get approval in #ubuntu-desktop meeting before adding system templates

Variant I: package managed

• allow users to disable system templates by uninstalling nautilus-system-template-support

Variant II: gconf managed

• allow users to disable system templates by flipping a gconf key

Plan B - ship templates in ubuntu-nautilus-templates

• enable system templates support in nautilus
• ship templates in ubuntu-nautilus-templates package
• fix nautilus to only show templates for which the associated binary is installed on system
• policy: additions to ubuntu-templates would be decided in #ubuntu-desktop meeting

Variant I: package managed

• allow users to disable system templates by uninstalling ubuntu-nautilus-templates

Variant II: gconf managed

• allow users to disable system templates by flipping a gconf key