From kde-devel  Mon Aug 30 18:48:33 1999
From: David Sweet <dsweet () chaos ! umd ! edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:48:33 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KFM Templates
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, ian geiser wrote:
> --- David Sweet <dsweet@chaos.umd.edu> wrote:
> > I was thinking that KDE applications don't take
> > advantage of the Templates
> > directory on the Desktop.  It would be nice if,
> > where appropriate, applications
> > could install a template for their document type
> > 
> > For example, I just added an empty file called "Text
> > file.txt" to my Templates
> > directory.  Now I can right-click on the desktop and
> > create a new text file.  A
> > left-click on the icon opens my text editor (emacs).
> >  Of course you could put
> > a file with any extension for which you had an app
> > capable of creating files
> > of that type:  .xpm, .(koffice document extension --
> > don't know what it is),
> > .html, .tar.gz, etc.
> > 
> > It doesn't add anything powerful, just a different
> > point of view (more
> > "document-centric" maybe).
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> I always wondered why this folder wasn't kept in the .kde directory....
> 
> It sounds like a great idea.  I am doing that with my Applixware
> Document Templates right now.  Thanks for the idea.
> 
> -ian reinhart geiser

I think putting both Templates and Autostart  in .kde (well,
.kde/share/apps/kfm) with kfm menu entries to access them would be the way to
go.  

Dave