GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 658380
Recently-used list should also show folders in Open mode
Last modified: 2017-05-30 13:21:19 UTC
In bug #593793, we made the recently-used list show folders only in Save mode. We need to show folders in Open mode, as well as files as it is right now. There are several options to be explored: - Show the recently-used folders in the shortcuts bar. - Show the folders in the file list as usual, separated from the files by some kind of header: Name Size Modified ---------------------------------------- Recently-used files foo.txt 42 2011/09/06 bar.doc 1234 2011/09/05 Recently-used folders Some Folder Some Other Folder - Show the recent files as children of their recent folders. One problem is that this breaks chronological ordering in the list (idea by Jasper St. Pierre): Name Size Modified ---------------------------------------- Some Folder bar.doc 1234 2011/09/05 Some Other folder foo.txt 42 2011/09/06
This bug still sorely needs to be fixed (Debian libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-6) I experience it in evolution when adding attachments to an email.
Was a patch applied which fixes this bug? I'm finding that evolution does now include Recently-used folders in the Add Attachment dialog (evolution 3.6.3-1, libgtk-3-0 3.8.2-2 on Debian unstable). I see the same also in the Open and Save dialogs of gnumeric. There are a different set of Recently-used folders shown in Open mode, compared to Save mode (on my system only two folders show up in Open mode, while dozens show up in Save mode). I guess it makes reasonable sense to maintain separate lists, but it might be worth checking it is behaving as intended before closing this bug.
Hmmm, my mistake ;( The Recently-used folders is not currently working effectively in Open mode after all. When I reported in Comment 2 that it was, it seemed to be showing at that time folders that I had in fact recently used. Today however, it is not showing them. There is still an inconsistency in this bug that needs to be fixed.
This is still lacking in 3.16.
Seems that this has been addressed in 3.18, but now the recently-used list is completely gone from save mode.
This issue is fixed, can you please close the bug report? (In reply to Christian Klomp from comment #5) > Seems that this has been addressed in 3.18, but now the recently-used list > is completely gone from save mode. See bug #781819 for that.
Marking as fixed, as per comment 5.