[okular] [Bug 465018] New: [Feature request] Let user disable saving per-document vew settings

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465018

            Bug ID: 465018
           Summary: [Feature request] Let user disable saving per-document
                    vew settings
    Classification: Applications
           Product: okular
           Version: 22.12.1
          Platform: Microsoft Windows
                OS: Microsoft Windows
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: davidkacerek at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY:
When setting up zoom from the main toolbar, selecting a view mode from the
menubar and moving throughout the document; zoom scale, view mode and
last-viewed page position are saved per-document and have to be redone upon the
doc's next opening if the default view settings are desired.

While default zoom configured in the General Options window is not saved
per-document, it gets overruled by per-document *.xml file anyway. Also I don't
like the relevant metadata folder keeping growing, possibly out of proportions.

I've figured out a work-around by deleting %localappdata%\okular\docdata folder
and creating a blank text file of the same name w/o an extension there. Okular
is polite enough to not overwrite this file with its own folder to save *.xml
files with individual docs' metadata in there.

Unfortunately, this also deprives me of the possibility to save annotations. So
an option to not maintaining just per-document view settings would be nice.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. Open up a document and play w/ the view mode, zoom and move around the
document. Then close it.
2. Open up a different document and set the view mode & zoom differently and
close it.
3. Open up the previous document and check the view mode, zoom &
position-on-page settings.

OBSERVED RESULT:
Setting view settings is not applied globally. When re-opening a document I
never start from the 1st page.

EXPECTED RESULT:
Setting view settings can be enforced globally. When re-opening a document, the
position in a document is always at the beginning.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS:
Windows: Windows 10 x64

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
I suppose the behavior is the same across OSes, please implement the feature on
at least Win+Lin.

Thank you.

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