Stefan Krusche wrote:
> 2) close the documents list (and/or side bar), save the session.
>   There is only "Default session", so the running session, which
> is the default session, will be saved as default.session in
> kate/sessions/ (would be saved in default.session anyway, but
> without your changes)

Making the initial tool view changes to the default session may be the
key. While I already had a default session, that is where I made the
initial changes and I have not had any issues with the memory loss
others are experiencing.

> 3) next time you start kate, it will find default.session with your
> saved changes concerning the view of docs list/side bar.
>
> BUT: still strange is, that the second time I tried that, kate
> would not let me save the freshly opened session, but popped up a
> dialog to enter a name for the session to save. I then "opened"
> from within kate "Default session" (the only one in the list)

I didn't have this issue because I had Kate configured to save
sessions on exit. I can confirm that manually saving the default
session (when it is the only session) can only be done after selecting
it from the Sessions menu.