[Thunar-dev] Recent document support

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>>>With some additional functions it can become a generic interface to
>>>>the recently-used database, which mousepad, xarchiver, xfburn and
>>>>xfmedia could use.
>>
>>gtk already has recently-used files support, though unfortunately you
>>need gtk 2.10 for it.  Maybe someone wants to backport it, or
>>sed -e 's/Gtk/Exo/g;' and import it into libexo...  Blah.
> 
> GTK+ 2.10's GtkRecent* and GLib 2.12's GBookmarkFile are XBEL, but the
> current standard is not. Unfortunately. Well, GNOME people...
> 
> But implementing the recent-files spec is really trivial. See the patch
> I posted for Thunar. The stuff in thunar-vfs-io-recent.{c,h} implements
> the spec, and supports querying the list and adding/updating URIs. With
> only small changes it should be usable for mousepad/xfmedia/xarchiver.
> 
> I don't think we should add it to a library until it's clear if the
> current spec will be replaced with an XBEL based one. Just copy the code
> to the applications (it doesn't need anything special, just GMarkup).
> 
> I could also cleanup the code and put it into libface.

Hm, that being said, I should probably put the code into libxfce4util,
so mousepad/xfmedia/xarchiver can use that, and add a panel plugin for
the recent files. I don't think Thunar is the right place to display the
recent files anyway.

Benedikt