Creating new writer document to folder in dolphin doesn't start it with default template

[sennowa]

Environment: Manjaro Linux, KDE Plasma 5.21.4, Dolphin 21.04.0, LibreOffice 7.1.2-3

I created a new template that I set as default. Running LibreOffice Writer from the Application Launcher opens up a new document with that same template, as it should. However, creating a new .odt document straight in a directory using Dolphin’s “Create new…” tool ignores the default preset and launches the document with the preset the application starts with on clean install. I suspect that has something to do with Dolphin’s own template for the “Create new” tool, but I have no idea what to do about that. Is there a way to correct that and have documents created directly in a folder start with my default template as well?

[EarnestAl]

Create new doesn’t look at Default Template, yet. On the bright side, you get your default language. You need to create the document from within LO then save to a directory.

[sennowa]

@Astur your method didn’t solve it, but the comment just below suggesting to replace the default soffice.odt file in the templates did, so thank you for the link!

[sennowa]

So turns out the way to do this is:

1. create an .odt file with the style that you want to use by default
2. rename it soffice.odt
3. copy it to /usr/share/templates/.source/ as root to replace the existing file

More detailed methodology is in the link commented above by Astur!