[Maniphest] [Commented On] T665: Show default (empty) document on startup in document-based Calligra apps

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 18 January 2016 at 14:12, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday January 18 2016 12:47:59 C. Boemann wrote:
>
> >Well what you would get is a really empty document then - not pages, no
> font,
> >no margins, no nothing - all of those decisions is what is stored in a
> >template. Having to code all those decisions just for the sake of not
> loading
> >a file with those decisions "coded" through a much nice user interface
> called a
> >wordprocessor is well.. stupid.
>
> I'm not sure I agree. I'm quite sure that in OpenOffice and a few other
> wordprocessors, things like the default styles, page size etc. are
> configured at a different level than the document template (though a
> template could probably override them). I may be wrong, of course, but I'd
> certainly appreciate it if templates have the option to omit specifying
> things like styles and page size so that my own preference in these matters
> applies.
>
> Anyway, go ahead, forget I made some noises :)
>

Some people want a document with default footer/header, like a company logo.
This is all defined in file format, default document instance == template,
GUI only follows what's in the document and document standard.

The original document is not just an almost empty XML also for historical
reason; like Camilla said, truly empty document would be probably even
logically broken/invalid for some editors, if it lacks a single frame and
user isn't able to insert proper frame. I bet not even 0.1% of users
understand that the central area of the document can be actually a frame.
This is exactly because they're used to see default "empty" documents being
preconfigured for them, to start being productive right after the app
starts.
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