https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481626
Bug ID: 481626
Summary: Sessions UI seems extremely confusing to the point of
being unusable
Classification: Applications
Product: kate
Version: 23.08.4
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: sessions
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: e...@horse64.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
After some days (weeks?) of trying to use it, since I'm wondering if it's just
me I wanted to provide some feedback on the sessions UI. Kate is nice but this
part I really struggle with. I use kate a lot and it also doesn't seem to
separate recent files and recent folders, making it time consuming to manually
browse to open up all my project folders separately every time I reopen kate,
therefore I would be a heavy user of sessions if I could figure out them at
all. But my experience with them has sadly been too confusing to make much use
of them. Here are a few problems I ran into:
1. With multiple kate windows, it's completely unclear whether a Session
extends to just one window or multiple. I first thought all of them, since it
also shows in the title bar, but when I open 4 windows via "File > New Window",
then in each of them open a separate project via "File > Open Folder" then save
a session via "Sessions > Save Session", then quit kate, then reopen kate, then
reload that session, I absolutely don't get the 4 windows and 4 folders back,
but just the last folder. Extremely confusing...
2. Sometimes the session just doesn't seem to save the folder I opened but only
some random open files in that folder, so when I reopen the session I get
littered separate files but not the associated folder. Not even the latest one
that I usually got like in point 1.) I don't know what to do with that,
especially since I haven't found a way to predict or understand as a user when
or why this happens.
I hope some of that is useful for improving the sessions feature.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open new kate window
2. Open multiple other kate window
3. Open a folder in each of them via "File > Open folder"
4. Save session
5. Quit kate
6. Reopen kate and reload session
OBSERVED RESULT
All windows and all folders are back.
EXPECTED RESULT
All windows but none or only one of the folders is opened, and/or not in the
window it was open in before.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE Slowroll
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: plasmashell 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11 (built against 5.15.11)
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