Please describe the problem:
I'd like to be able to move ~/.recently-used.xbel (to an encrypted ~/Private on Ubuntu). I tried doing this with a symlink, but it is overwritten.

Steps to reproduce:
1. touch ~/Private/.recently-used.xbel
2. rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
3. cd ; ln -s Private/.recently-used.xbel
4. gedit
5. Open some file.
6. Close gedit.


Actual results:
~/.recently-used.xbel is a file and no longer a symlink. The data has been written to ~.

Expected results:
~/.recently-used.xbel would still be a symlink and the data would've been written to ~/Private/.recently-used.xbel.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
If there is some other way to redirect this filename, please let me know. If there were some way to set a "filename" GObject property on every GtkRecentManager when it's created, that seems like it should work, based on the code.

Otherwise, I'll upload a patch which makes this honor symlinks. It uses g_file_read_link(), which was introduced in glib 2.4. I'm not sure if that's an issue.