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Bug 608008 - Previously viewed page is not remembered on reopening on Windows
Previously viewed page is not remembered on reopening on Windows
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: win32
2.29.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-25 09:16 UTC by Hib Eris
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:45 UTC
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Description Hib Eris 2010-01-25 09:16:19 UTC 
On Linux, Evince remembers the page you are reading when you close a document. On reopening the document, it shows that page again.

On Windows this does not happen, I am not sure why.

I'll have to look into this. It might be that this is handled by the session management (egg-smclient), that is not used on Windows???
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2010-01-25 09:35:31 UTC 
It's because the old metadata manager depended on dbus, well, actually on single instance to make sure only one process writes to the metadata file. New metadata stuff uses gvfs which is not available on windows (I guess).
Comment 2 Ramesh 2010-01-26 14:54:12 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> It's because the old metadata manager depended on dbus, well, actually on
> single instance to make sure only one process writes to the metadata file. New
> metadata stuff uses gvfs which is not available on windows (I guess).

Sorry, if it is a silly suggestion. If Windows doesn't have a feature to implement this stuff, can we use temporary files (may be under _evince/_config folder) where we could store the last opened position(s) before closing a document and look up that when we open a document again?  

This feature was one main reason why I love Evince (which even Adobe Reader doesn't have yet).
Comment 3 Hib Eris 2010-04-03 10:40:51 UTC 
The proper solution for this would be to implement meta data support for Windows in Glib's gio.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:45:40 UTC 
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