In Okular:
Some settings are okular wide, if you change them, they will be changed in all the future okular instances, an easy example is if you change the shortcut for saving from Ctrl+S to Ctrl+Shift+E.
Some other settings are document specific, for example zoom, if you change the zoom of a document it will only be restored when opening the same document again, but not if you open a different one. There's also a "default zoom value for documents you've never opened before" in the settings.
Some other settings like "Continuous View" are a bit of a mess and are both. "Continuous View" wants to be a global setting (i.e. so that if you hate continuous view you always get a non continous view) but it is also restored to the status it had when you closed the document you're just opening.
That's understandably a bit confusing for users :D
My suggestion for continuous view would be to make it work like Zoom, be purely document specific but also have a default option in the settings dialog for people that hate continous view.
I'm guessing this should cover all our bases?
Opinions? Anything i may have missed?
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I think it makes more sense for Okular as a whole, but I usually just turn it on and never turn it off. I am kind of a fan of how LyX does things though, which lets me do both global and per-document settings for when I need it, that's a lot more work though.
For me, okular setting
> continuous view would be to make it work like Zoom, be purely
> document specific but also have a default option in the settings
> dialog for people that hate continous view
Yes, that makes sense to me.
In my view, continuous view mode should be a per-document setting. I always enable or disable continuous view mode depending on the chosen documents. PDF slide decks I like to view page-per-page, everything else (reports, research papers, etc.) in continuous mode. Today, I am quite happy with Okular restoring the setting each time I reopen a document. It will be displayed in my preferred way irregardless of what document I worked with before. For me, this works so much better than in Evince with its application-wide setting for continuous view mode.
I believe it should be a "document" setting because slides are more easily read in single page mode, while I believe continuous view is preferred in most other cases. Opening up a slide show pdf and the corresponding full text article is a somewhat common usage case to justify this choice.
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