GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 162277
Edit recent documents (in nautilus) instead of delete all
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:14:23 UTC
Under the menu Actions > Recent Documents, there is an option to remove the recent documents history. Would it be better tyo hathere the option "edit" instead of delete, which opens a nautilus windows with the links to the recent documents in it ? They should be sorted by date default. This way you can drag some links to the trash to remove 'm. All this makes it more powerfull and it fits much betterinto gnome, I think.
I think the user should be able to remove some documents and not all (for this, we should create a context menu). But why would this be useful to see this in nautilus?
for consistency, I guess. It would be the easiest to do it by drag 'n drop, no ? Just open a window in nautilus with the shortcuts so you can drag 'm to the trash to delete or press del or right-click and delete, just like you do it with other things right now in gnome.
(In reply to comment #1) > But why would this be useful to see this in nautilus? from the tradition idea of 'everything as a file', it is nice to be able to use existing file management tools to manage what appears to be a list of files. I kind of like this idea but maybe I'm just used to Windows (where you can right click on the start button, Explore, and then clear out the recent documents list using the file manager) Looking at this slightly differently a Delete item requires confirmation (or you easily risk accidentally clearing the list) so if you must pop something it might as well be a tool or dialog which allows to you edit/manage the history. > I think the user should be able to remove some documents and not all confirming based on the fact that you agree with the underlying task the user is trying to perform even if you the best implementation is unclear
Any news on this ?
Karel, well yes, some news is that I've been working on a patch to create a context menu, see [1]. In this menu we should be able to add options such as "Remove from List" and "Delete File" - it we want. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98906
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