Bug 238712

Summary:	No possible to load document if initial attempt fails
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	squan
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, daniel_aurich, jordonwii
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description squan 2010-05-24 19:16:30 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

If in okular loading of a document fails (e.g on KDE session start without network connection) then there is no way in the UI of the okular window to get the URL of the document to be shown.

Since common shortcuts (F5 or Ctrl-R) are not available and URL does not show up in recent documents menu it it not at all possible to load the document later, leaving the user with an empty useles window.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Open document in okular
2) Leave KDE session
3) disconnect network 
4) Restart KDE 

Actual Results:  
Empty okular window with no possibility to load document after network is up

Expected Results:  
F5 (and/or Ctrl-R) should load the current document or
recent documents menu should show its URL

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2010-07-12 20:34:54 UTC

Does Okular warn you that the file could not be opened?

Comment 2 squan 2010-07-14 19:32:50 UTC

Yes okular shows a popup with the URL which turns out to be copy-pastable.
Thus it is possible to work around the problem.

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2010-08-20 01:28:54 UTC

*** Bug 248451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 squan 2011-06-13 08:42:26 UTC

Since a secure wireless connection is systematically not yet available at the time the KDE session starts, okular always fails loading PDFs.

As my session has many open PDFs, as a result I get as many notification popups cluttering my desktop (which by the way also makes the taskbars grouping feature fail on okular, even after closing the popups).
By closing the popups it is no longer possible to load the PDFs.

Okular should not disable the "Reload" entry in the "File" menu in case of failed intial loading.

Comment 5 jordonwii 2012-01-05 05:32:04 UTC

Should this bug be WONTFIX or FIXED, given #2?

Comment 6 squan 2012-01-05 12:46:46 UTC

I'm still hoping that this will get fixed.
The document URL should be shown using File/Properties menu, even if loading failed for whatever reason.

Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2012-01-05 19:35:18 UTC

Show me a program that has this behaviour and we'll talk, but what you asking is loading a failed loaded document so you can reload it, pretty non standard if you ask me

Comment 8 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-08 13:53:11 UTC

User could not find an example in more than 2 years.