[Okular-devel] [Bug 308683] New: Okular does not remember display preferences for documents on refresh or reopen

[reescf at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308683

            Bug ID: 308683
          Severity: normal
           Version: 0.15.2
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
           Summary: Okular does not remember display preferences for
                    documents on refresh or reopen
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: reescf at gmail.com
          Hardware: Archlinux Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: okular

I was told to open this as a new bug rather than "hijacking" one which appears
(as far as I can tell) to be the same issue. However, I assume from this that
it has been determined that it is not the same issue despite all appearances to
the contrary from a position of ignorance. Hence this report.

The original poster's bug report said:

"I use Okular for various kind of documents, which different... display options
I set manually for each of them, what's really boring. I'd like Okular to
provide an option that remembers these parameters for each document, as Dolphin
remembers display options for each folder."

I don't know if this is what is meant by "display" but if you use Okular with
Kile to produce slides (e.g. using the beamer latex package), every single time
the pdf is updated, Okular requires you to once again say whether you want to
allow full screen mode or not. I would not even mind if I had to tell it once
per editing session but every time I regenerate the pdf? (And when I'm
adjusting something visual such as a presentation, this happens quite
frequently.) If I generate the pdf X times without answering Okular's query, it
makes me answer the question X times before showing the pdf. If the relevant
tab in Okular is not active, the entire application disappears and I have to
get it back using alt-tab before answering the question and finally seeing the
pdf.

To me, this is the same issue: Okular does not remember display preferences for
documents so when the document is opened again (e.g. refreshed as triggered by
a typesetting run in Kile), Okular requires you to reconfigure your settings
for the document. [Note that acroread, for example, allows you to check a box
to remember preferences for that particular document. Too bad I don't want
acroread to remember them!)

I've included the original report here because it captures the issue as well as
anything I can say. As far as I could see, I just added details of a particular
instance in which lack of the feature is particularly annoying. I didn't think
I was requesting anything different. So I'm a bit stuck on how to report this,
to be honest, because I still don't see (despite the "hijacking" comment) how
to differentiate the issues.

Hopefully somebody else can. I'm happy to provide info on request.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a PDF
2. Set display options e.g. tell Okular not to use full-screen mode when asked
3. Refresh/re-open the same document e.g. regenerate PDF from TeX source if
Okular is configured to update automatically
4. Notice that you have to reconfigure the display options you set in step 2
5. Repeat as desired
Actual Results:  
See 4 above.

Expected Results:  
Only steps 1-3 should be necessary.

I took this to be a duplicate or specific instance of bug 200183 ("Remember
display for each document") but have been told that it is definitely not and
that posting the report there constitutes "hijacking" the bug.

I didn't look for further duplicates. I figured if that one wasn't it, I would
have no idea that I'd found a duplicate if I did come across one.

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