GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316446
History not saved
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Should be usefull to rely on an history for the recent files opened. Both on the "File" menu and in the "Choose file" dialog. This is the common behavior of most programs and will be interesting to reproduce that behavior. Other information:
*** Bug 316448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
How is this different to the drop down menu which is already there?
It's not different. But history isn't saved right now, at least not on my Fedora Core 5 installation.
*** Bug 347545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same here, Ubuntu Dapper Drake, the history is not saved, except for the CVS one.
renaming subject, according to the comments. stephen: any idea for nicola, harlan and jeff how to provide more information?
Created attachment 73752 [details] Well.. just not having blank entries would suffice for me... The thing is, it works for certain tabs such as the cvs dir one, but it does not work for everything. I guess it's just a small bug that slipped in here. Oh, and the dropdown widget should be able to hold maybe at least 10 items without scrolling if possible.
Strange, this worked when I coded it. I'm not sure when it stopped working.
It worked in the previous Ubuntu (Breezy, 5.10), and it's broken in Dapper.
confirming as per comments.
Created attachment 85140 [details] [review] Patch to fix file/directory history dropdown I've attached a patch which works for me to fix the history dropdown. It involves calling append_history on the appropriate GnomeEntry's. append_history is always called on the *first* GnomeEntry only. This is because the glade file gives all the entries the same historyid, and if each GnomeEntry is called separately then they overwrite each others settings (getting only the last appended item).
Thanks Sam, I've applied it to SVN.
Close old resolved bugs.