On 2/4/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:

Patch from Debian has been applied to SVN HEAD:

"Custom default templates can now be specified per-user. Start a new document, make any customizations you wish - such as changing the paper size - and save to ~/.inkscape/templates/default.svg. Now, all new documents you create will be created with this template."

This is rather strange. This functionality has been available for quite some time. I just tested it and it works (before your change). It is quite eleganlty implemented in the current code:

sources.push_back( profile_path("templates") ); // first try user's local dir sources.push_back( g_strdup(INKSCAPE_TEMPLATESDIR) ); // then the system templates dir

Your patch just adds _another_ hack on top of that, which is completely unnecessary. Didn't the author of the patch try if it works first? If it didn't work for him it's likely just a bug which should be reported.

This functionality was documented in 0.44 release notes:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes044#Miscellaneous_improv...

So, Bryce, unless I'm missing something, I think we should revert this and contact the author of the patch.