Comment 42 for bug 372132

Not sure which templates to add?
First and most important to most desktop users - office related templates: OpenOffice equivalents of word, excel & powerpoint of course. Both the OpenOffice and MS Office installers add these templates on Windows. So a patch to add this functionality to the Linux OpenOffice installer as well should be created and pushed upstream.

And of course, users don't add/remove templates every day, so having for that reason a separate "Templates" folder right in the home folder is overkill. This folder should obviously be moved (I'd suggest, according to the freedesktop.org traditions) to either ~/.config or ~/.local

My 0.02$