[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107502] Missing Copy Function in Template Manager

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107502

Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |cno at nouenoff.nl,
                   |                            |philipz85 at hotmail.com,
                   |                            |tietze.heiko at gmail.com,
                   |                            |vstuart.foote at utsa.edu
                 OS|Windows (All)               |All

--- Comment #1 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
Hi Harald,

(In reply to Harald Koester from comment #0)
> I think it's quite usual to create new templates by modifying existing ones.
> Furthermore I think there are 2 usual and intuitive ways to create these
> modified templates:
> 
> (1) Open existing template > Modify > Save template as new template with
> different name possibly into a new category. This is currently possible with
> template manager. OK.
> 
> (2) Copy existing template with a different name possibly into a new
> category > Open and modify new template > Save template. This is currently
> not possible, because the copy function does not exist within the template
> manager. Hence expected: Copy function within the template manager.

File duplication is a file manager feature and believe we intentionally left it
out of the newly redesigned template manager. If the feature was there, the
user would still need to rename the template in the template manager on
duplication and open up the template, modify it, and save template which would
be a bad workflow compared to first workflow.

> Especially if you don't have admin rights on your system and you like to
> modify a predefined template, you need this function. In this case a
> predefined template is read-only and can't be modified.  

Libreoffice would never be able to duplicate the predefined template file if
its in a folder that the user doesnt have permission to, so not sure what is
being said here. I tested editing one of the predefined templates in LO 5.1,
which used the old template manager and came installed by default, and the
infobar appeared stating it was read-only and i clicked the 'edit document'
button, i modified the file and saved as a new template and it put it in the
user-level template path ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/template/

For me this is a WONTFIX. @Heiko, @Stuart, @Cor: Whats your take?

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