[Thunar-dev] Create File

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 30.01.2006, 17:57 +0100 schrieb 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. 

Create a file ".hidden" and add "Templates" in there :) (is that
implemented yet? guess not *hides*)

> 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 

no


> or it will use existing
> ones created by Nautilus. 

yeah, none

> In any way, the files just serve the purpose
> of this template feature - they don't belong to the users personal data

They are the user's template files for example for "C source file with
my copyright header".

> (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).

Yeah, which is why I use .desktop files for favourites which _are_
placed in the home directory (in bookmarks/) ;)

> 
> - Jannis

cheers,
   Danny