Comment 29 for bug 372132

If I understood this right,The proposed solution is,Just drop empty files from various apps in the templates folder?

Dropping the empty files in templates folder , just to add them to the list is *blatant abuse* of "Templates" .

*Templates are supposed to be user or company specific* , something that already has a format, and just needs an edit to be finished.
Upstream has been right to reject this and not to populate the create document option.

*Templates are not empty files* and *this is a wrong approach* .

If this option is confusing or difficult to use, its better if this item 'Create Documents' is removed!

As already pointed out, The *only* user-friendly solution is, if the a menu item actually points to the "New" of the app,
ie: when the user selects , 'New document' , the app directly opens with an empty file.

The "Windows way" of creating new documents is not user-friendly:
1: User *has to rename a file*
2: User has to open the file after the initial select of > Create Document.

No-one actually simply creates an empty files, users want to work on the new Documents.

I'd say rather than taking shortcuts and dropping files into templates , we could implement a feature which is actually user friendly.