Re: Okular: Multiple tabs session restore fails

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Monday, January 11, 2021 09:59:57 AM inkbottle wrote:
> 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.

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.)