Okular: Multiple tabs session restore fails

[inkbottle]

Hi all,

Could you tell me if you also experience this annoying behavior, or if it's
only me?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335852

I very much rely on the appearance of my desktop remaining identical through
reboots (spatial memory).

Lately this feature is quite broken. For instance, Kmail always open full
screen no matter what. So does System-Settings, for no reason that I can see.
And not they do not have window manager rules attached to them. I just mention
that because maybe it's related.

Thanks,
Chris

[rhkr...@gmail.com]

Are you addressing only the behavior of Okular, or are you referring to the
behavior of some other apps as well?

I don't reboot very often, but Okular is problematic in that, if I'm viewing a
.pdf from the web (this in Wheezy and Jessie), the .pdf content is stored in
.tmp (or something similar), the problem being that on a reboot, .tmp (or
whereever the .pdf content is stored) gets wiped out (at least by default, on
my system).

So, obviously, at that point there is no (easy, or built in) way for Okular to
restore the content. (Okular would have to keep track of the original URL and
reload it, and I don't think that capability is built into Okular at this
point in time -- I guess it would be a nice to have feature, but I don't know
if anybody is interested in doing something like that.

Aside: I guess, also, without thinking about it, somebody (any user) could
build sort of a bash (?) "wrapper" around Okular to do something along those
lines -- i.e., instead of invoking Okular to view a .pdf, you'd invoke a bash
script which would store the URL somewhere safe before invoking Okular to
display the .pdf. That script would also have to be invoked when closing a
.pdf to remove that URL from the safe storage location. )

I don't know whether if I was viewing a .pdf from my "permanent" disk storage
behavior would be any different / better. I rarely, if ever do that. (I wish
.pdfs would just go away (along with all the Microsoft "document" formats.)

[inkbottle]

No, what you are describing is unrelated with the issue considered here. You
should certainly formulate that issue of yours through a new question, either
here, or in general channel.