[Thunar-dev] Recent document support

[Benedikt Meurer]

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.

Benedikt