Don't show template selection ui any longer

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 14 January 2011 11:01, Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> On Friday 14 January 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> > There already a possibility to archive that the same template is opend
>> > all the  time by selecting "Always use this template". Is that not
>> > enough? The the user himself can decide if he wants to always have the
>> > dialog or og straight for the template of his choice.
>>
>> Either all Calligra applications should have the template dialog on startup
>> or none. I don't think it's a good idea to introduce inconsistency here.
> I agree.
>
>> If we want to change something here, I think we shouldn't do it out of
>> hand in reaction to a bug report, but after discussing it with Thomas
>> Pfeiffer and figuring out what the problem really is, and what the right
>> solution is.
> I think the problem might be that the templates are not so good (two columns ?
> studend card id in a spread sheet, really ?). Or broken (like the fax
> template, professional letter), or not convenient to use (try to edit the
> business letter).
>
> An other problem is that it seems that the "always use this template checkbox"
> is not known by many users, an idea to solve that problem could be to move the
> checkbox near the "use that template button".

The problem with this setting at UX level may be also that it's not
obvious to locate it in numerous config options if someone wants the
original behaviour.

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