On Monday, January 11, 2021 4:41:49 PM CET rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > 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.)
No, what you are describing is unrelated with the issue considered here. You should certainly formulate that issue of yours through a new question, either here, or in general channel.
