[Thunar-dev] Create File

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Vincent schrieb:
> On 1/30/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> 
>>Benedikt Meurer schrieb:
>>
>>>Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>You could use a translation of "File", and prepend it with the
>>>>>extension. E.g. txt file, php file, odf file... Not ideal though...
>>>>
>>>>Dunno yet. Please add suggestions (if any) to
>>>>http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391.
>>>
>>>
>>>The functionality is now available in Thunar SVN. For 1.0.0 we'll stay
>>>compatible with Nautilus, using the ~/Templates folder.
>>
>>I'd like to vote against this decision. This is a somewhat special
>>folder and therefor should be hidden. The home directory shouldn't
>>contain program files/special folders, only files/folders created by the
>>user himself.
> 
> 
> 
> Well, actually, the files which are in my ~/Templates folder are created my
> me, so from that pov it's ok...

Usually, the program would create them for you or it will use existing
ones created by Nautilus. In any way, the files just serve the purpose
of this template feature - they don't belong to the users personal data
(even in the case of highly-personalized templates, they belong more to
the program configuration than to personal data; e.g. Firefox favourites
are not placed directly in the home directory).

- Jannis