[okular] [Bug 380330] New: Bookmarks disconnected after path change

[Jeff Dooley]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380330

            Bug ID: 380330
           Summary: Bookmarks disconnected after path change
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.25.0
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: jfd5xte at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 105767
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=105767&action=edit
Okular Bookmarks Screenshot

I created a new bug, even though I recognize this bug is tightly linked to Bug
158837.

The reason I'm documenting this as a new bug is because I am _NOT_ highlighting
this as a readability issue from the sidebar. In fact, I don't even use the
sidebar normally, until I started investigating this issue.

>From my perspective, following a change to the path (either file name, or a
changed directory), the bookmarks are completely lost (!). Now, I have since
learned that they are not in-fact lost, but instead simply disconnected to my
updated file name.

The issue is not readability. The issue is that I may not want to bother
bookmarking future PDF files in future. File name and path name changes occur
_all the time_. You can't see them all in the attached screenshot, but I have
about 20 bookmarks in that one research paper. I have to re-link them
individually or just re-create them anew, which is probably easier.

This is a major nuisance. Had I not researched this bug, as an ordinary user I
would have not understood why my bookmarks just disappeared from the Bookmarks
menubar for no apparent reason. Since path changes are commonplace in my
typical workflow, it makes me wonder whether okular bookmarks are worth using
at all.

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