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> It’s interesting because copy and pasting a class gives you something humans love: a template! That’s exactly what the OS/2 workplace shell did back in the e
by G3rn0ti 5y ago
> It’s interesting because copy and pasting a class gives you something humans love: a template!
That’s exactly what the OS/2 workplace shell did back in the early 90s: You had a “templates” folder where you would drag one of the many notebook-like icons and drop a brand new and empty file of the corresponding type.
When installing OS/2 programs they would register new file types and create a template in this special purpose folder. Man, that were exciting times!
Didn’t Ubuntu also support templates up to a point?
- red_trumpet 5y agoI know that Xubuntu 20.04 with the Thunar file manager still supports templates. I use them for my LaTex template.
- trissylegs 5y agoNautilus (Gnome's file browser) does this. It's new menu is populated with files from ~/Templates
- npteljes 5y agoI just checked Dolphin (KDE's file manager), and it does this. As far as I understand it, it's a Freedesktop.org standard. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
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