GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 48530
(feature req.) Missing "Recent Documents" feature
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Both MS Windows and MacOS feature a "Recent Documents" menu of some kind. Suggestion: Integrate a statistical history of file "open," "copy to," "move to," and "link to" actions. Allow other apps (e.g. file selector widget, the Panel) to query this history. Some examples of useful features: Most Recently Opened Most Recently Saved Folders Most Frequently Opened From Folders Most Frequently Saved To This is in parallel to gnome-file-selector bug #99689 at bugzilla.gnome.org ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------
I'm not sure if nautilus is where this bug should be filed since it seems like it would have to be used in all gnome apps to be really useful. opinions?
Someone on the gnome-love list did infact start on a gnome recent-documents thingie. I don't know what happened to it.
was it nautilus based or more general gnome, should we move this bug to differen product? just seems to me that for this to work as in windows, any program should update recent documents, galeon, abiword etc.
It was a generic
Well is there a better product to move it to. seems silly to let this sit in nautilus bugzilla where no one will probably see it who might be interested in implementing it.
I don't know if it has a bugzilla component yet. Try searching the lists. I think it was somewhat late for Gnome 2, so we're delaying adding it to the platform.
I'm going to move this to general gnome, since nautilus is definately not where it belongs.
I'd originally posted it against the file-selector widgets as well, but that bug seems to have been lost -- or I misrecorded the number? At any rate, I'd expect the simplest effective change would be to log through File/Open and File/Save [As...] common dialogs, a la Mac OS X. (MRU folders show up in a pop-up menu in the common dialogs there.) The Nautilus component of this would perhaps be a custom view (Go/Recent Documents) or sidebar? -- but first, the data needs to be collected.
You know this could probably be done pretty trivially using gconf.
*** Bug 59689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also #85441
See also bug #85441 [deliberately repeating so that bugzilla will add a clickable link on the webpage] I would vote for this (if voting was turned on). Should i file a seperate bug report/feature request for "Recent Applications" a really useful feature in Mac OS 9 (and presumably OS X too i forget)? Just by way of analysing user behaviour the "Recent Applications" menu allows me to can avoid using the Launcher program (which i dislike but can be helpful for newbiews) and compensate for the badly organised global menu (but i suspect i have been using some fairly oddly setup OS 9 machines).
well gnome has this feature now marking fixed.