Cannot open files in new tabs

[moonmehta]

Go to "Configure Okular" and turn on "Open files in new tabs". Doesn't work regardless of the setting. It opens a new window for every file. The snap version and .deb version of Okular work fine.

I tested this on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, elementary OS 5.0 and Linux Mint 19.2.

[moonmehta]

I tested this again with the latest Okular version fro Flathub. Still opens all PDFs in individual windows even when the "Open files in new tabs" setting is turned ON.

[eszlari]

CC @grulja

[tsdgeos]

the problem is probably flatpak doing some "you don't need dbus" or "i'm going to change your dbus name" because flatpak

[Gabriel-p]

Can confirm this is still happening with Okular 1.10.3 in elementary OS 5.1.6 (based on Ubuntu 18.04)

[Gabriel-p]

Just updated to version 1.11, this issue is still present.

[Gabriel-p]

Version 1.11.1, the issue is still there

[tsdgeos]

I'm going to give you a hint, if the bug is open, you don't need to comment saying "it's still open", you're just wasting your and our time. We're only interested if we fixed it and forgot to close the issue.

[Gabriel-p]

Didn't think I was wasting your time updating the status as the versions of the app changed. Will stop updating though.

[tawfeqfauzi]

Using Okular version 1.11.1 Flatpak.
Running Pop! OS 20.04 with Gnome as DE.

The open files in new tab feature works fine when I click File>Open... in the top left of the menubar. Did you try this? @Gabriel-p @uncertainquark

However, I am able to replicate the issue when opening a PDF directly from nautilus (file manager).

[Gabriel-p]

Indeed @tawfeqfauzi, that method opens files in tabs as expected.

[Glitchy-Tozier]

Apparently, only certain ways of opening multiple files do not work. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427653

The main one (maybe the only one?) probably being the most common way to open files: Double-click one file, then double-click the second one.

[v-marinkov]

Is this a limitation of flatpak overall or just the okular implementation within it? Is there any workaround this? Say, by giving okular elevated privileges?

[tsdgeos]

I'd say a little bit of both

[travier]

This bug tracker is for the Flatpak version of Okular. Please file a bug upstream in the KDE bug tracker for other platforms.

[Justinzobel]

@omersayli this is not for the Windows release. Please use https://bugs.kde.org