I never knew this before. I thought templates were kind of useless, but they turn out pretty handy when you’re configuring your document over and over again (Kalle found a way to avoid this, but it’s a bit of a hack, and I don’t want to get administrator permissions just for that).
You’ve probably seen the “Templates” folder in your home folder (”Sjablonen” in Dutch). The first thing I always do when having installed a new distribution is throw it in the trash. Now Inkscape stores document properties, like snapping objects to a grid or outline scaling, right in the SVG, which means that you can create for example icon templates that you so often use! Just open Inkscape, configure the document as you wish and save it in the Templates folder.
Now your templates will show up when you right click on the desktop or in a folder and choose the “Create document” submenu! 
Looks like the templates also show up in the openSUSE main menu. Great!
Great! But I have a question: Is it possible to create a “folder template”? I tried to do it, but it shows me the documents in that folder, not the complete folder. If I make a .tar file it works, but it’d be great if I could make a folder template
But shouldn’t this folder be hidden?
It only helps clutter exist in ~/. Or it is possible to set TEMPLATES directory to something else?
Livio: see ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Really useful! Thanks!
There is a way, to acheive this on windows?
@Some apps install blank document templates, but that’s about it.
Haha, the template folder was one of the first things i discovered when i switched to Ubuntu Linux. I created or linked several subfolders per application into it. At all a very usefull feature that isn’t often realized.