Dash - the physical format of the Dash (windowed or full screen, which filters are expanded or collapsed) should be stateful across sessions

[John Lea]

The physical format of the Dash (windowed or full screen) should be stateful across sessions. For example if a user makes their Dash full screen, the next time they open the dash after re-booting their computer it should be displayed full screen.

This bug is also intended to cover filter format state e.g. which filters are expanded and collapsed. However the filter selections themselves e.g. the options you have selected should *not* be stateful across sessions.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This is not an issue on my current Oneiric install. Dash does indeed remember its state on reboot/re-login.

[Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)]

The dash is remembering the state; trunk version of unity.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

seems we've got it back :/ (using staging ppa as of today)

[manny (estelar57)]

All settings are now remembered even filters ?

if so, great, but also needs a more proper desc/title.

[Corey Kearney (snkiz-deactivatedaccount)]

No Manny not as far as I know, and that's not even in the description for this bug. I filled another one for that https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939285 I believe it was mistakenly marked a dup of this one. If it is a dup than the description needs to updated to reflect that.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

@John I might be little confused is this bug also supposed to also cover the case for the filters?

[manny (estelar57)]

Well i see that the filters are not remembered yet (for example "apps available for download" still appear when i restart or logout and back in) or when i set filters to show is not remembered either.

As far as remembering the dash size (windowed or full screen), that is working, so i guess this bug is only about that.

[Developer (lunixhacker)]

The latest 12.10 builds also have this problem.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 we have reviewed this bug and we will not be working on it in the near future. Sorry we can't offer you a fix. We will of course review patches if anyone submits them. Please stop by IRC to discuss this option.