[scribus] I want to see only my own templates

[ale rimoldi]

hi greg

> I don't see any reason not to get rid of templates you don't want, since
> there are so many of them. It won't break Scribus.
> If you are using the standard installation locations, you will find the
> templates inside /usr/share/scribus/templates
>
> If you have specified your own installation directory because you
> compiled Scribus on your own, they will be in
> yourdirectory/share/scribus/templates
>
> If you have any anxiety about breaking something, then copy them out to
> some other place for a backup before deleting.

it's not about getting rid of the templates.

it's about not touching the files managed by your package management.

if you don't follow this rule, it's very likely that at some time you 
will have a broken system and the simplest solution is then to reinstall 
everything.

removing the templates will unlikely break something (even if you never 
know how your package system reacts to missing files when you update),
but not to mess with the system files seems to me a very sane habit.


this does not apply (OF COURSE!!!!!!) if you compile scribus yourself.
in this case, as you correctly say, go in the directory that you have 
set as a target and mess with it as much as you want!
in the worst case you will have to remove the whole install directory 
and do a fresh "make install".
not something you should be worried about :-)

just take care not to use a "system" path as the target. of course.


and (of course part 3) do what you want on your own computers!
you're a free man in a free country!
but you might want to refrain from telling other people on a public 
mailing list to do things that might break their "system".
it gets archived, referenced in the search engine and unskilled people 
will read them.


that's all for today from my side!
(and i knew it: replying to what i consider a bad answer from jluc is 
never a good idea...)

peace and love
a.l.e