"Create New" templates in Dolphin: Where are they?

[jesnow]

It used to be you could right click in a file manager folder and the context popup would give you an option to "Create New..." and there would be options for all kinds of things: text files, spreadsheets etc. This would work from a source directory, where templates for the various file types you could create would reside.

With Plasma 5, this option appears to have disappeared. At least, the ability to do that is restricted to text files and html files. None of the likely places that used to work in kde4 seem to do anything. So far I've dropped template files all over my file system in places that the google has suggested including:

~.kde4/share/templates
/usr/share/templates
/usr/share/kde4/templates

None of them has any effect on dolphin's behavior. I would file a bug, but want to check first if I'm missing something.

Cheers,

Jon.

[asturm]

This is not related to Plasma-5 in any way, but any path containing 'kde4' is also obviously wrong if we assume you are running an in-tree (kf5-based) dolphin version.

You have the choice of two directories, either global or local:

/usr/share/templates/
~/.local/share/templates/

What you do is create a .desktop file that describes your template and contains an URL to your actual template source. Calligra e.g. creates a .source directory within the templates dir for that purpose.

[jesnow]