[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142147] Password protection on Writer malfunctioning

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142147

--- Comment #13 from Tomaz Vajngerl <quikee at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #12)
> The point of SaveAs is to create a new document. And by default documents
> are not protected. So we have a good argument for the current state. It
> would be helpful to describe a use case. For example, "I use a protected
> template and expect the documents created based on it to be protected as
> well.". Sounds reasonable to me and easy to resolve.

Well, the use cases with "Save As" aren't simple at all. We have to take into
account that with "Save As" you can select a format that doesn't support
password protection at all, or does support password protection, but is
incompatible with the current document password protection (ODT save as DOCX
for example).

So in general you have 3 possibilities if the document is password protected:
- target document format doesn't support password protection -> need to inform
the user this is the case
- target document format is different than source -> need to inform the user
and he needs to retype the password again 
- target document format is the same as source -> no action needed - just use
the same password

But yeah - there is also password protected templates as you say. Do we want to
save the documents with the same password as the template. That's quite
tricky...

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