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