[Thunar-dev] Recent document support

[Stephan Arts]

On 7/31/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Stephan Arts wrote:
> >>>I wanted to submit a feature request for this, but i do not know if
> >>>this is a thunar-, thunar-plugin-, libexo-feature or none/all of the
> >>>above.
> >>>
> >>>I would like to see an interface to find out which documents have been
> >>>opened recently.
> >>>
> >>>I have found a gnome-discussion about this:
> >>>
> >>>http://live.gnome.org/RecentFilesAndBookmarks
> >>>
> >>>and there is a freedesktop-spec for it:
> >>>http://standards.freedesktop.org/recent-file-spec/recent-file-spec-latest.html
> >>>
> >>>Is it something to put on the roadmap for Thunar?
> >>
> >>Well, I've cooked a patch to add support to display Recent Files in
> >>Thunar (using the 'recently-used:'-URI). Dunno if its something that
> >>should be kept. It's based on the current standard, but can be updated
> >>to use XBEL later.
> >>
> >
> > Thank you for the patch, i noticed it does not add recent files all
> > the time. (Files opened with OO.o and Gimp are added, but not with
> > mousepad and scribus)
> >
> > What is causing that? Could it be fixed in thunar?
>
> Pretty simple: Mousepad and Scribus don't implement the recent-files spec.

What about placing the recently-used code to libexo?

With some additional functions it can become a generic interface to
the recently-used database, which mousepad, xarchiver, xfburn and
xfmedia could use.

> Benedikt

Stephan