Comment 67 for bug 372132

As a long-year Ubuntu and Linux Mint user, I always used to think this "Create New Document" menu was a work in progress. Since it is not an indispensable functionality, it seemed reasonable that this would be broken. But reading this bug report made me feel sad about it. Why on earth should it be wrong to add some default templates to that menu? It's just one out of many decisions that a Linux distribution makes for its users. All it takes are some templates for the default apps that come with the distribution. Once they are there, users will realize that this feature actually works, and may even figure out how to add custom templates.