aaaand, years later, this bug persist. It is clear that a higher priority needs to be applied, this is probably one of the most annoying bugs I ever confronted...
Pease guys, someone fix this. I'm running Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 with Gnome 3.12.2 and the problem persist when a third-party app triggers a pdf to be open. Firefox, sublime, texmaker... when evince opens, none of the preferences are recognized. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503372 Title: Evince doesn't retain settings in Lucid Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “evince” source package in Lucid: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: evince evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low . * add debian/patches/02_fix_dot_dir_creation.patch: fix dot dir creation when launching evince directly (LP: #571725) . evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low . * New upstream release: Bug fixes: - Make inverted colors mode work in presentation mode too (#614693, Carlos Garcia Campos) - Respect GNOME22_USER_DIR env variable (#613637, Ray Strode) - Fix loading of local documents when uri contains a page destination (#616515, Carlos Garcia Campos) - Take default settings from last document opened. Fixes regression caused by migration to gio metadata (#606090, Carlos Garcia Campos) (LP: #544639, #503372) - Update icons to match gnome-icon-theme appearance (#614747, Hylke Bons, Carlos Garcia Campos) - Make sure there's a new valid page range before updating caches (fdo#27599, Carlos Garcia Campos) - Update FSF address everywhere (#514607, Arun Persaud) - Fix loading of compressed password-protected documents (#613959, Carlos Garcia Campos) - Close previewer window with control + w (#612972, Carlos Garcia Campos) - Fix keybindings in previewer window (#612972, Carlos Garcia Campos) Translation updates Test case: install evince from -proposed, open some pdf document, close them, reopen them to see the window has the same size ----------------- Previous systems - Karmic, Jaunty and before kept the last settings in Evince. In Lucid, it always opens with the side pane and in mini-mode. I expected it to open in the mode last used. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Jan 5 09:00:39 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091225) Package: evince 2.29.4-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic SourcePackage: evince Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/503372/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

