At present, if I edit a document and save it, it appears in the "recent
documents" list. If I select the document from the "recent" list, it opens in
the default handler for that document, which is not necessarily the application
in which I was last editing that document.

It would be nice if the recent documents list also remembered the last
application used to access the document, so that selecting the document behaves
as a history of user actions. I think it's a user expectation that selecting a
document from the recent list should return them to what they were last doing
with that document.

For example, if I edit an SVG in Inkscape then selecting the SVG in "recent
documents" will open it in the image viewer rather than inkscape. I would like
to keep the default action for opening SVGs as viewing rather than edit, but
that renders the recent document list useless to me.

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