[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 137906] New: Add functionality to select templates directly from File menu

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137906

            Bug ID: 137906
           Summary: Add functionality to select templates directly from
                    File menu
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: sdc.blanco at youmail.dk

It is a pity that "recommended workflow is templates and styles"
(see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137873#c0  ),  
but there is not an easy way to get access to templates from the menus (or
shortcut keys).

As far as I can tell, there is no way to:

a) make shortcut keys to (user-produced) templates
b) add templates to a menu (in Tools > Customize)
c) have LO offer some selection of templates (from a menu)

The Template Manager is slow to open (a few seconds delay) that
makes it unpleasant to use, especially compared to 
the fast and easy:  File > New > Text Document
 (right at the top, which opens a new document more or less immediately.)

When one has decided to open a new document and knows which template
to use, then it should be as easy as File > New > Text Document.

Probably there are many solutions to this situation.   Here is one suggestion:

File > Templates >  Open

                    Save
                  -------   (i.e.,  the first three existing controls) 
                   Manage
                  -------
                 ( a list of 
                   "Start"
                  templates )

"Start" templates is an invented idea -- using the fact that Template Manager
works with "Categories".

"File > Templates populates the "Start" list by reading (or remembering)  the
templates in the "Start" category.

Then users can use Template Manager to customize what goes into "Start", which
is then automatically read into the Start menu for File > Templates.

Even better:  a .uno, so that one could choose (for example) to place this
"Start" function at the top of File > New 

(Then the "reflex" (and recommended workflow) is always to use the right
template (populated with the right styles),
which is why the UI should make it as easy as possible to do.)

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