Feature request: Auto populate "Create new document" menu with text files found in ~/Templates/

[sebastiaanfranken]

If you launch Setzer without any documents the "Create a new document" menu should/could be auto populated with files in the users' Templates directory. The menu could have 3 items:

• New LaTeX document
• New BibTeX document
• New document from template

The "New document from template" could/should be a submenu/popout menu if the users has a lot of template tex files.
This might make it easier to work with template latex documents (I do that a lot, hence the question/feature request).

Would this be:

1. Possible
2. Wanted?

[cvfosammmm]

Template support would be wanted, yes. There would have to be a UI for template creation as well.

Is there a common directory for templates?

[sebastiaanfranken]

Is there a common directory for templates?

On Linux it's ~/Templates, or xdg-user-dir TEMPLATES

Template support would be wanted, yes. There would have to be a UI for template creation as well.

I hadn't thought of template creation yet. I place tex templates I prepared myself in Setzer or vim in the templates folder once I'm done with them and I adjusted them (no text, no headings, etc).

I think the main project creation dialog can be reused for that, though

[evamvid]

we might be thinking about different types of templates, but don't latex templates usually need to be in the texmf tree so that the interpreter can find them?

[sebastiaanfranken]

we might be thinking about different types of templates, but don't latex templates usually need to be in the texmf tree so that the interpreter can find them?

Yes, we're thinking about different types of templates. Linux has a feature where you can put anything in the ~/Templates folder. If you right click in your file manager you get a menu that gets populated with the stuff in said folder.

You can also use that folder as a source (as @cvfosammmm asked) in other applications.