Comment 16 for bug 503372

Same problem here with lucid. On first opening any pdf, evince shows a side pane with thumbnails and occupies a very small area of the screen. If I close the side pane, then resize evince to something readable on my monitor, then close evince, subsequent opening of ***the same*** pdf does not open the side pane and retains the resized display. However, opening a new pdf reverts to the original behaviour.

There should be an option to permanently disable the sidebar, and the size should be remembered for all openings of all files, since desired size is more likely dependent on the desktop real estate than on the document content.

Also, it never makes sense to have side panes, thumbnails or indices for one-page documents. This is not user-friendly behaviour.