Templates management

This is going to be much text, so possibly you want to skip the first part and start at (*).

I would like to have a better organization of document templates. At the moment you have to launch an application, then you have to select the kind of document you want to create. Every application has its own way to handle templates. It's pretty nice in KOffice although I think some buttons are missplaced, I don't use that application very often so I have to search for the button to use the template every time. Furthermore, the distance you have to travel with the mouse pointer is very long.

But I don't like "start an application, then create a new document". I would prefer to have a central place where I can store any sort of template. One could say: why don't you create a folder and copy your templates in there. Okay, but this doesn't make sense for example for images, because it's not possible to store templates for images in any size and colour dephth. So a template shouldn't be just an empty copy of a document with a special file name extension but a description what's to do to create a new doc. For example, the action "create a new image by using the scanner" could be understood as a template.

Additionaly one could get rid of the procedure "click on save, then type the file name". I would prefer to store the document to disk just in the moment I create it. There is a mechanism that points in the right direction: right-click on the desktop, select "create new", then select the appropriate template. I don't know how this works internally, but at least it's not really used very good, so the only KWord-Document I can create there is an empty doc - templating is more.

(*) So my prefered way of creating a document would be:
1. open the templates folder
2. drag the template I want to use to the destination folder where I want to store it (remember the example with the scanner: this would be equal to dragging the image directly from the scanner to the destination folder), OR:
2.b. just click on the tepmlate, the "templating subsystem" then automatically creates a new document and stores it to the "new documents" folder (or somewhere specified by the user, for example desktop); with the help of plasma, the "new documents" folder could even be integrated with the desktop somehow.
3. The result should not be just copying the template file but creating a new file according to the description stored in the template file. This may include actions executed by the application that registered the template to the system, for example opening a window where the user has to specify the resolution of the new image.
4. What happens then may be discussed; either the new document should immideately be opened by the appropriate application, or an additional click on the new document by the user could be required.

The "templating subsystem" sould allow any application to register new templates. At the moment every application has to manage its templates on its own. One could get rid of this and unify the way of templates being handled.

By the way: this idea originates from an OS that died about 10 years ago because it had no chance against an OS nobody really likes. By this time I was a child so I don't really remember OS/2, but the templates system memorized.