Thank you for your bug report and taking the time to make Ubuntu better. I think the fact that the settings are document-specific is more of a feature than a bug -- e.g. for some long document you may always want the table of contents which would be silly for a two page document. I think the "correct way" of doing what you want to achieve is: Close the sidebar and chose "Save current settings as default" from the "Edit" menu -- does this work for you?
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