Bug 228196

Summary:	Okular should not refresh file if it becomes unreadable
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Ivo Anjo <ivo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, possebaer
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ivo Anjo 2010-02-23 13:42:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

Okular has an excellent feature: it automatically notices changes to opened files and re-loads them.

Unfortunately this feature has a bug: if the new file is somehow unreadable, it means the "old" file is lost.

For example if I open a pdf file, and then using the shell or dolphin I take away its read permissions, okular automatically reloads to an empty window, which I think is a bug -- it should not unload the old file until it is sure that there is still something to be displayed.

Another example is using open-with within firefox: firefox saves a file to /tmp, and then opens okular. If you then close firefox, it cleans the file in /tmp, and the okular window becomes empty too.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2010-02-23 20:11:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225907 ***