[evince] Evince no longer restored from previous session

[Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze wanadoo fr>]

Hi,

I'm using Linux Mageia (fork from Mandriva).

Whereas on previous versions of these Linux distributions, Evince
instances were properly restored from previous session (even KDE one),
that's not the case anymore since Mageia 4: there are as many Evince
windows open as PDF files were open with Evince during the previous
session, but these windows are empty.

As soon I noticed this behavior, I made a bug report:

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  │ https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12699
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incriminating KDE, but I recently noticed that the bug arises with XFCE
as well.

There is a thread on the same subject (for a Debian Linux
distribution ):

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  │ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2010-May/msg00002.html
  └────

but:

- At that time (2010/04), the probable Evince version on Debian was
  Evince 2.22 and, on Mageia/Mandriva, the last Evince version that
  could be restored is 3.7.1, the trouble starting with version 3.10.3.
- It is suggested to look at the recent file list but I don't know where
  this file is located.
- Looking at the recent file list is a poor man workaround compared to
  session restoring.

I guess there is a specific trouble with Evince as /all/ other
applications, e.g. Okular, are properly restored, either with KDE or
XFCE.

Could the previous Evince' behavior be reverted in the future?

Thanks in anticipation.
-- 
Denis