On Wednesday 03 January 2007 15:04, Damir Perisa wrote:
> in kde (started by startx), i have set in the session manager, that it
> restores the session on login.
>
> this works fine with all kde apps (kwrite, kile,...) but for example
> when abiword is left running with a document open, kde will next time
> i start kde just open abiword with an empty document.
>
> this is not expected to happen like this - kde should restore the
> session by loading abiword with the document that was open.
>
> is this the problem of abiword or kde? what do you think?

I'm not really sure, but i think that's an abiword problem, not kde's. It 
depends on the way abiword keeps record of the opened files.

> what is actually the most reliable way to write an important, long
> (>200 pages) document (like a master thesis)? i started writing plain
> text files and now i'm thinking if i should play again with latex or
> maybe learn docbook or even try to trust ms word or openoffice to
> work reliably. previous experience with any monster-wordprocessor
> (like word or writer) was very negative with huge documents (up to 50
> pages it works fine, but if you keep adding text, some dark magic
> starts happening).

I've found out that Koffice manages big files much better than openoffice and 
it's a good option if you don't need to share your docs with windows users.

Cheers,

Damnshock

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