What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create a project with something in it (a text label, box, line, combobox etc.) 2. Save the project in a folder where user has read and write access (on Linux usually in user's /home folder) 3. Open Xfce's filemanager Thunar, choose the project file and using the context menu select "Open with Pencil" (if not present, choose "Open With->Open With Other Application")

Expected output: Project that was saved previously

Output: Blank project - single untitled document with a single empty untitled page

System: Debian 7 Wheezy 64bit up-to-date with Xfce 4 as desktop environment Evolus Pencil 2.0.5

Additional information: Opening the file using pencil command in terminal + file itself produces the same result. However when inside Pencil using the main menu "File->Open" project loads as expected. At first I thought that project is simply not stored properly. However the file that was created increased in size whenever I stored the current state after adding some new elements. Also opening the project file with a simple text editor revealed to me that the content is indeed there.

I have also discovered that "Open recent" from the main menu produces the exact same buggy result, which leads me to believe that the problem is indeed not coming from Thunar but from Pencil itself since "Open recent" is withing the application's own environment.