[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139187] New: open template -- vs -- new from template (new document based on template)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139187

            Bug ID: 139187
           Summary: open template -- vs -- new from template (new document
                    based on template)
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jepe at cspv.hu

Created attachment 168451
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=168451&action=edit
illustration

hi, 

there is a problem -- "ambiguity" :) -- about using templates, and the
templates menu entries....

first of all, we should decide what it is what we do when we "open a
template"...

two approaches are possible:

A:  open a template, an .OTT document, which we can edit

B:  create a new document based on the given template...


personally, I'd "vote" for A, but I can live with B too, only I'd like to have
only one of these approaches in use... :)


- - - what happens in reality:
(case #1)

you go: File / Templates / Open Template --- and you'll have opened a template,
a .OTT file, and you can edit it...

(this is, obviously, approach A)

however...

(case #2)
you go:  File / Templates / Manage Templates

and you double click one... and bang, you'll have created a new document based
on that template...

which is approach B

moreover:

(case #3)
if you go: File / Templates / Manage Templates ... 

and select one, and click "open"... you'll have, again, crated a new document
based on that template...


however:
(case #4)

if you go:
File / Templates / Manage Templates

and right click, you'll see  strange options!

OPEN and EDIT...

as we know, open in this context means "new from this template"...
whereas "EDIT" means what one will think it means... (open the template for
editing)


.......................

suggestion:

#1
in the "manage templates" window... OPEN should be abolished... 
replaced with "EDIT"...

#1 / B
in the "manage templates" window... there could be another item: "New from
template"... or "New doc"...


#2
in the "Files / Templates" menu's dropdown... "Open Template" should mean what
it means (opening a template for editing).. but it should be perhaps labelled
as "Open a template"  (cause next you'll see a list of templates, and also
because "open a template" makes it clear that there is NO template selected in
the context... it is just about opening "a" template...

#3
in the "Files / Templates" menu's dropdown... there could be a new item:

open this doc's template...

since this is the leftmost dropdown, it will comfortable fit any screen, so
adding "this doc's" won't make a bad difference :) 


- - - thank you for developing Libreoffice ... & Merry winter fests! - - -


PS:
you only have to look at the dropdown in the "manage templates" window... to
see that there is a conflict .. cause "edit" and "open" basically mean the
same..

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