Task-Centric file creation - First mockups

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 31 January 2013 17:56:16 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2013, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > > Cheers,
> > > Thomas
> > 
> > This is very interesting.  I don't have much feedback but I just want to
> > raise one issue that creating new stuff (documents in my case) need to
> > take into account: templates.  Sometimes you want to create a new
> > completely empty document. Sometimes you want to create something from an
> > existing template.
> > 
> > Sometimes you even want to create a new document from an old one but that
> > is another matter. Just don't forget templates when you design the
> > interaction.
> 
> (implementation detail, but that's how i think :p) a thing that it occurs to
> me is that applications could define services in some common format, (ie, i
> know how to send emails, i know how to edit contacts etc) with a way to
> achieve that, that may be a command, a dbus api, whatever. In this case is
> also possible for third parties to change defaults of who does what action.
> 
> so, the task menu would expose that action, and invoke it, without knowing
> anything how is done.
> for creation of files, it may either be some small, global interface for
> creation derived from some preinstalled template, or in case is something
> more complex, the application (would think about say, krita) registers
> itself a "create new drawing" action, that would just be in the end, behind
> the scenes an invokation of krita with the right commandline to show an
> internal file creation ui, that would follow some ui guidelines, so is not
> much relevant to the user that what happened is krita that had been
> launched instead of some stock thing.

Yes, absolutely! We definitely need something like that. Ideally as a 
freedesktop specification so that not only KDE applications can make use of it.