Using Kate 16.04.0 Everytime I start Kate it opens the documents Sidebar. I don't use this feature... So I turn it off. But because this setting is not saved anywhere (I've checked the before/after Kate configuration files with diff). The Sidebar reappears the next time I open Kate... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Kate session (either from shell or application menu/krunner) 2. Close Sidebar 3. In Kate settings menu : enable save Window state in Session / Load last used Session 4. Close Kate 5. Restart Kate (as per 1.) Actual Results: Re-started Kate session has Sidebar enabled. Expected Results: Re-started Kate session remembers Sidebar state. Therefore Kate SIdebar is disabled. This was NOT a "feature" in the KDE 4.x branch of Kate!! If I turned off the Sidebar - it would STAY turned OFF - the next time I opened Kate...
I don't have this problem. Arch Linux 64-bit Kate 16.04.2 KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 Qt 5.7 xcb wm
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #1) > I don't have this problem. > > Arch Linux 64-bit > Kate 16.04.2 > KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 > Qt 5.7 > xcb wm Ditto on the base packages and Kate version. So maybe it's a Plasma 5 specific issue? Some more testing ... 1. Ensure you have *NO* saved Kate sessions 2. Start Kate session (either from shell or application menu/krunner) 3. Disable plugin "File system browser" 4. In Kate settings menu : enable save Window state in Session / Load last used Session 5. Sessions -> Save session (i.e. save to a blank/default session) 6. Close Kate 7. Restart Kate (as per 2.) In my mind (!!) a blank session name should still be saved to a "default" location. But even when I used a named session and the above steps - none of my plugins are staying enabled. Even when I manually reload the session... The other Kate settings are being restored successfully. Very weird??!! I've tried cleaning out the "cruft" - removing my kate* config files from ~/.config. There are no KDE 4 config kate* config files in my ~/.kde4 profile directories. So it I guess it might be a cache issue - with Plasma 5. I'll try cleaning this out next!!
(In reply to Bob Wya from comment #2) > Some more testing ... > 1. Ensure you have *NO* saved Kate sessions > 2. Start Kate session (either from shell or application menu/krunner) > 3. Disable plugin "File system browser" > 4. In Kate settings menu : enable save Window state in Session / Load last > used Session > 5. Sessions -> Save session (i.e. save to a blank/default session) > 6. Close Kate > 7. Restart Kate (as per 2.) > > In my mind (!!) a blank session name should still be saved to a "default" > location. Yeah, I don't get any session after those steps in "Manage sessions". There are these relevant reports: Bug 319396 - Kate should ask for a session name upon clicking "Save session" in an unnamed session Bug 268913 - Sessions are not resumed when closing and reopening the window
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 319396 ***