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When the IDE restarts, it remembers the selection in the explorer. Evidently, since the focus is not on the selection in the explorer node, menu items that would be appropriate for the selection don't get enabled. For example, select a class with the main method. Then under the 'Debug' menu, all itmes like start, step into etc. get enabled. Now, you exit the IDE and restart it. It will come back with the same class selected, however, you don't see the 'Debug' menu items enabled. This is confusing. Suggestion: May be do not persist the selction, so the user will not get confused about why some menu items are not enabled.
changed owner Dafe -> Peter Z.
It seems it is necessary to remember also activated top component, to get the same activated nodes after restart.
I tried it now (build on fresh sources), and it seems it is working. Could have been fixed by some patch before. Closing as worksforme.
It works fine in [nb_dev](20030728) - verifying.