Opening several tabs for the same file when using restore tabs

[Hans Peter]

Opening a PDF file, closing qpdfview and afterwards opening the PDF file ( e.g. by double click on it) again, results in a new tab for the same file. It would be more inuitive, if the reader recognizes that a tab for this file already exists and assigns the focus on it.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello Hans Peter,

thank for taking the time to report this issue. Launchpad's OpenID is
provider is current so I cannot properly triage it, however:

I think you meant opening a PDF, minimizing (not closing) qpdfview, and
opening it again from e.g. a file manager will open a new instance of
qpdfview?

If so, which version of qpdfview do you use? If it is an older version
from the Ubuntu repositories, maybe [1] or getting the current version
using Benjamin Etzner's PPA available [2] does resolve it?

Best regards, Adam.

[1] http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/qpdfview#Tabs

[2] https://launchpad.net/~b-eltzner/+archive/qpdfview

Am 10.04.2014 15:35, schrieb Hans Peter:
> Public bug reported:
>
>
> Opening a PDF file, closing qpdfview and afterwards opening the PDF file ( e.g. by double click on it) again, results in a new tab for the same file. It would be more inuitive, if the reader recognizes that a tab for this file already exists and assigns the focus on it.
>
> ** Affects: qpdfview
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: file tabs
>

[Hans Peter (jonny-chillig)]

Hi Adam,

I'm new to reporting bugs, so I apologize for the missing information.

Thank you for your hints, but I already tried [1] and my qpdfview version is 0.4.9 using Benjamin Etzner's PPA. This should be the current version as far as I know. Unfortunately that didn't solve the problem.

No, I really meant opening a PDF, closing qpdfview (completely) and opening it (the PDF file and with that qpdfview) again from a file manager (in my case it is thunar). This results in two identically tabs.

I hope my problem becomes clear.

Best regards,
Hans

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello again,

now I think I understand: You use the "Restore tabs / Reiter wiederherstellen" functionality? There is indeed an inconsistency here that is already fixed in trunk and will be part of release 0.4.10. If you feel a bit more adventurous, you can grab the daily builds from [1] which should fix it or wait until 0.4.10 is released (no date for that yet).

Best regards, Adam.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~adamreichold/+archive/qpdfview-dailydeb

[Hans Peter (jonny-chillig)]

Hey,

ok cool, thanks for your quick answers. I think I can wait until the newest version is released.

You doing really great work.

Best regards,
Hans