Bug 509405

Summary: Okular does not honor Settings-Activity-TrackingFile option
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Kyes <o4480ogs4gggkg0oocowcscco448g4c0>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kyes 2025-09-12 03:01:02 UTC 
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Make sure that Settings > Activities > Default (only one exist) > Tracking File and app use is OFF.
2. Start Okular
3. Open some PDF

OBSERVED RESULT
Okular clearly remember PDFs and its opened state. I read tons of PDF daily and it creates insane amount of history!!


EXPECTED RESULT
- When KDESettings clearly say no tracking, those history should be OFF.
- Gwenview, your image viewer, has an option to disable history. Why not do same thing?
- As a workaround, I purged and set ".config/okularrc" file to read only so that it cannot write any more history. But alas! Your app whine with this message "not writable. Please contact your system admin"

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
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