Am Sonntag 18 Dezember 2016 schrieb Michele Calgaro:
> > Unfortunately I do nowhere see an option to set default session. However,
> > it appeared once, in an opening dialog to choose the session to open and
> > there was an switch to let kate always open that chosen session when
> > starting. But I can't reproduce that.
> >
>
> The default session up to R14.0.x is hardwired in the code, if a session
> does not exist the default session is created/selected by default.
>
> Kate -> Settings -> Configure Kate -> Session: provides option for session
> management when opening and closing Kate. In particular if you choose
> "Manually choose session" you will be presented with a dialog where to
> select the session to use when you start Kate
>

And there comes up again the option to permanently choose that session to be 
opened by default. I did not try that because I was thinking it would only 
choose the session for that one particular start-up of kate.

That is what I could not rediscover after it had appeared one time... Thanx.
So, the proposed "work-around" is obsolete ;-)