GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582669
add ability to clear history
Last modified: 2012-12-03 10:06:42 UTC
The current recent documents menu in gnome-panel has the ability to clear the history. We should have something similar for the shell.
I think we could have a per-item button that allows to remove a document from the list (temporarily). I'd like this button to be an icon appearing after hovering a while on the item, just like the one I'm experimenting with in Sander's menu implementation. But maybe a global button would be needed too.
I second the per-item removal, but maybe this could be done via d&d? Like dragging items into the "void" besides activities?
Or (even better IMHO): history items should get a highlight/border if hovered over. If this is the case, one could just press DEL to remove the item from history (just like in Firefox' awesome bar.
*** Bug 590310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I vote for both (per-item and global). Having just set up gnome-shell, I found I had a surprisingly large number of recent items.
With the Zeitgeist integration (once that's merged), "clear all" becomes rather irrelevant (there isn't much point in removing the entire database). Removing single items would be great, though (maybe even with shift to select multiple items and delete them all with del?).
(In reply to comment #6) > With the Zeitgeist integration (once that's merged) Has it already been decided that this will happen and will it be mandatory for gnome-shell?
Maybe it's a bit against the simplicity-concerned design principles of gnome-shell, but I'd love to be able to set a/some filters for the recent document section. Maybe this could be placed on some sort of advanced configuration in gnome control center instead of readily available on the very same interface, but the concept of "document" usually involves pretty specific kind of files (e.g: oo files for on administration, source files for a dev, image files for a photographer), and the reason why I find those lists so useless is because they usually end up filled with crap. Just an idea.
Actually I'm planning to implement this through Zeitgeist (once the Zeitgeist stuff gets merged into Shell).
*** Bug 606428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The shell doesn't display this any longer. I think this probably should go into the planned Privacy & Sharing System Settings panel.
Any chances of this being resolved in 3.4?
Done in the new Privacy panel in GNOME 3.8. In GNOME 3.6 and newer, you can browse the recent files in nautilus, and remove the items selectively.