Bug 481626 - Sessions UI seems extremely confusing
Summary: Sessions UI seems extremely confusing
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: sessions (show other bugs)
Version: 23.08.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2024-02-21 13:02 UTC by Ellie
Modified: 2024-03-23 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description Ellie 2024-02-21 13:02:39 UTC
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
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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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