Ubuntu
evince package

If there is a password stored in the keyring, provide thumbails for password-protected pdf files

Bug #54951 reported by Mateusz Drożdżyński on 2006-08-02

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evince (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Password-protected pdf files are not thumbnailed at all, however if the password is stored in the keyring the preview should be available.
We should also decide whether the thumbnail should be deleted when the session expires (and you have to enter your keyring's password again) or not.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-08-02:

Thanks for your bug report. Reassigning to evince, which contains the evince-thumbnailer. What do you mean by keyring? Does evince use gnome-keyring to store .PDF passwords? Can you attach an example of a password protected PDF?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Untriaged → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote on 2006-08-02:

A password protected PDF file Edit (118.3 KiB, application/pdf)

Yes, I mean gnome-keyring which evince uses for storing passwords.
I attached a password protected PDF file. The password is 'password'.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-08-02:

Marking the feature request as rejected, using the keyring should be possible but as you pointed the thumbnail can be a security issue and there is no infrastructure at the moment for the thumbnailer to clean the preview when closing the session. Implementing that would probably not be trivial and the distribution team and upstream will probably not come to that any time soon according to the ration between efforts and the little cosmetic win