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<p>One could try to e.g. remember the keys with values for positions in finishRestore() and use that as overwrite in createToolView like we do there with</p>
<div class="remarkup-code-block" style="margin: 12px 0;" data-code-lang="text" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code" style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; padding: 12px; margin: 0; background: rgba(71, 87, 120, 0.08);">// try the restore config to figure out real pos
if (m_restoreConfig && m_restoreConfig->hasGroup(m_restoreGroup)) {
KConfigGroup cg(m_restoreConfig, m_restoreGroup);
pos = (KMultiTabBar::KMultiTabBarPosition) cg.readEntry(QStringLiteral("Kate-MDI-ToolView-%1-Position").arg(identifier), int(pos));
}</pre></div>
<p>As long as the config pointer is valid, no operation showing/moving toolviews will have any effect.</p></div>
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<p>Yep, there must have been a good reason why those two variables were cleared at the end of finishRestore(); I should have looked closer for that reason; I'll rework the diff. (Sorry about the noise).</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R40 Kate</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22067">https://phabricator.kde.org/D22067</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ahmadsamir, Kate, cullmann, dhaumann<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>kwrite-devel, domson, michaelh, ngraham, demsking, cullmann, sars, dhaumann<br /></div>