Comment 15 for bug 503372

Precisions : evince saves settings per pdf, and has default as unmaximized and with a side panel. The previous behaviour was much more sensible. I tried to delete ~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml, which contains the per-pdf information, but it had no effect, even when reloading gnome and killing evinced (why do they need a daemon for, anyway ?)