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Bug 93407 - recent documents menu stuff should be more specific
recent documents menu stuff should be more specific
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other other
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
uipattern
Depends on:
Blocks: 93033
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-16 16:01 UTC by James Willcox
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description James Willcox 2002-09-16 16:01:52 UTC 
Really, the only thing the HIG says about the recent documents menu
(AFICT), is that it should be updated immediately when the user opens a
doc.  IMHO, it should also specify:

1)  Maximum number of recent docs in the menu (or at least a default)
2)  Whether or not the recent docs should appear in a submenu.

Also, I was considering making the max number of items configurable through
the control center.  What do you guys think about this?
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2002-12-10 13:12:15 UTC 
Being realistic, it's probably best not to write these details until
we have some reusable Recent Documents functionality in the GNOME
APIs. It would just create another HIG-realworld conflict.
Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2002-12-24 01:45:29 UTC 
People seem to expect the libgegg RecentDocuments stuff to go into
libgnomeui for 2.4.
Comment 3 James Willcox 2002-12-24 03:25:31 UTC 
Yeah, Anders seems to think it's ready to go in for 2.4.  There are
some usability issues that need to be discussed, though.  Specifically
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101881
Comment 4 Calum Benson 2010-03-05 18:54:42 UTC 
An ancient and obsolete bug up to a point, but handling recent files sounds like something we might want a 3.x UI pattern for as there's still some inconsistency around.  See also bug #93033.
Comment 5 Allan Day 2014-09-26 12:16:40 UTC 
I'd be willing to add a section on recent documents to the menu bars page.
Comment 6 Allan Day 2014-09-29 15:16:07 UTC 
I added something basic to start with.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/commit/?id=371708bf4e07e6668aff06e12d659a8bd9624940
Comment 7 Allan Day 2014-09-29 16:04:25 UTC 
Thought I'd closed this with comment 6. Apologies for the noise.