GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 744331
Don't default to recently used when it is empty
Last modified: 2015-02-15 09:12:38 UTC
If no characters have been used in the past, it isn't very useful to show the "Recently Used" section. When Characters is run and recently used is empty, it would be better to show the Punctuation section.
It should be fixed in: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-characters/commit/?id=f30f4804