On 2016-12-23 03:09:28 deloptes wrote:
Thanks so it was quite a bit of a progress. Now we see it is a local problem and not a bug in the app.
I see here also file - might be relevant .trinity/share/config/session/kate* on my system it is from 2015 ... seems very old, but the default session in ./share/apps/kate/sessions/ is also from 2015. I recall I stopped using it as it was having some issues I do not recall ATM. I started using custom sessions related to group of tasks/documents
You can also try diff -r old/new .trinity dir
I checked quickly here
/.trinity$ grep -r Kate-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible . ./share/config/session/kate_10e1d0db73000144560300200000045480037_144580754 8_826952:Kate-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/9f45c5b6cf8fab93dd47e270908d519f.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/82be5fd7f9f81774d6efb8c8a1b053f0.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/86240bcd71ceccd04eb82ef560023676.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/361b21bd8228704d89e897c416036477.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=false ./share/apps/kate/sessions/8ce2069f091c5ddee6eb33956b27ee0b.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/e044101a99db7bf8b0e953cff4063798.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/default.katesession:Kate-MDI-ToolView-kate_filel ist-Visible=true ./share/apps/kate/sessions/ce927b51474626a3ece5604b117e740d.katesession:Kat e-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=true
Okay. I didn't know that the same settings appear in two different files. (Why is that?)
I did these steps: 1) rm ~/.trinity/share/apps/kate 2) rm ~/.trinity/share/config/kate_* 3) rm ~/.trinity/share/config/katerc 4) opened Kate, which asked to select a session; chose Default Session 5) Window -> Tool Views -> Hide Documents 6) Window -> Tool Views -> Hide Sidebars 7) closed Kate 8) reopened Kate; Success!
So apparently one has to remove at least the first two configuration items (not sure about katerc) to ensure that the tool views settings are properly accepted. I see now that Kate did not recreate ~/.trinity/share/config/kate_*, and only default.session exists in ~/.trinity/share/apps/kate/sessions.
Thank you all for helping clarify how this works.
Leslie