Suggestion for DesktopEditors: Change the behaviour when opening dotx, potx, xltx....

[VeldoraTheDragon]

Hi there,
In the DesktopEditors of your upstream OnlyOffice, there has been suggested a change, on how the DesktopEditors behave when opening Office Open XML template files.

Because currently, if one double-clicks a template-file, it opens it in the "Edit" mode instead of opening a new Document using that template as a base.

There have been issues opened regarding this topic:

• .dotx does not create a new Untitled document ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors#619
• Change behavior of opening template files to match Microsoft Office. ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors#2333

There was also a Reddit-Post in r/OnlyOffice mentioning this topic, where I've also "added my mustard to". (German proverb for our non-German speaking contributors ^^)

• https://www.reddit.com/r/OnlyOffice/comments/vy4p5d/open_dotx_template_as_a_docx/

This change however made it never into a current release of the DesktopEditors, only a "kindof" workaround as been implemented by this time. (Being to open a new empty document, go to File → Open from Template → Select template file)

It has been mentioned, that there were resources allocated, but I doubt that this feature will see any light in the next few years.

It would be awesome, if this feature however, gets some love and being implemented in Euro-Office's DesktopEditors.

[oleua]

So, how do you seed editing a template itself?

[VeldoraTheDragon]

So, how do you seed editing a template itself?

Normally to edit a template it is required to Right Click and then press Open from there, while Double Clicking is opening a new file using the template as a base → This however is what Windows / M$ Office does.

In LibreOffice, the previously described steps won't work.
However LO implemented under File a Templates directive, where one can select Edit Template to edit the template itself.

I'm in favor of how LibreOffice does it, since it's clearly a "separate" functionality to edit a Template or create a new file using a Template as a base.