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Bug 630247 - a user cannot define his own template file
a user cannot define his own template file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-21 11:50 UTC by Ildar
Modified: 2011-08-24 05:50 UTC
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Description Ildar 2010-09-21 11:50:50 UTC 
Gnumeric knows nothing about file temlpates.
It makes sense having "Save As" instead of "Save" for some documents.

Have a workaroud: make a file READONLY so attempt to Save such a file fails. Not elegant though.
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2010-09-21 12:31:27 UTC 
File -> New From Template -> (list)
Comment 2 Ildar 2010-09-21 12:56:14 UTC 
Changed Summary to: a user cannot define his own template file
Comment 3 Morten Welinder 2010-09-21 19:12:29 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.

The files need to go in a directory like ~/.gnumeric/1.10.11/templates
Comment 4 Ildar 2011-01-17 07:59:14 UTC 
Thank you, it works just as it supposed to.

BUT please fix the template directory. Templates are version agnostic. The version in the path brings just another discomfort. On every minor version upgrade a user has his templates unavailable until he does manual mv.

Please reopen or fix. Thank you.
Comment 5 Andreas J. Guelzow 2011-01-17 08:46:29 UTC 
Ildar, we don't know that templates always will be version agnostic.
Comment 6 Morten Welinder 2011-01-20 14:17:24 UTC 
Directories are cheap.

We can have ~/.gnumeric/templates as well as ~/.gnumeric/1.10.11/templates
Comment 7 Morten Welinder 2011-01-20 16:02:46 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 8 Ildar 2011-01-21 03:43:50 UTC 
Thank you Morten, thank you very much.
Comment 9 Ildar 2011-08-24 05:50:52 UTC 
As a related thing: when saving a file from a template, Gnumeric proposes to save the file in *.gnumeric format, ignoring the original template's format. Can I suggest it's worth fixing? Thank you.