GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 163092
Add "Recently viewed characters"
Last modified: 2021-06-02 09:10:02 UTC
Noah, now that you removed the Back/Forward buttons, how about adding a "Recently viewed characters"? I've got a feeling that that can be useful.
Is there an option for voting for bugs? I think this (recently viewed characters) would be very useful feature!
Any new about this feature? I think should be very useful.
*** Bug 461319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Re-assign to default owner and QA.
I'd like to vote strongly for this one! Specifically, I'd like an area of the window that shows "Recently Used Characters" (sorted by recency of use). Whenever a character is "used" by being copied to the clipboard, dragged, inserted, etc., it should be added to the front of the queue, and deleted from any existing position on the queue. MS Office does this in its "Insert Symbol ..." dialogue, and I can attest that it is very useful. You tend to reuse the same symbols over and over, especially within a given document. So it's great if the symbols you want are just SITTING THERE to click on. It's a pain to keep re-locating the same few symbols in the code pages, especially if they are on different pages, or to locate them earlier in your document to cut-and-paste them.
p.s. Ideally, this queue would be persistent (per user) across successive invocations of gucharmap. So if you fire up gucharmap, you get immediate access to the characters you were using last time you ran it. If there are multiple invocations are running at the same time, e.g., on different desktops, then each should probably get its own queue. The simplest way to reconcile this with the previous paragraph is that each invocation maintains its own queue in memory, and saves it to $HOME/.gconf/apps/gucharmap/ or $HOME/.gnome2/gucharmap/each time it changes (possibly overwriting a recent save by an invocation running in parallel). In any case, the important thing is to have the "Recently Used Characters" feature at all, even without any persistence!
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