[Thunar-dev] Recent document support

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:09:43 -0400, Aaron Fineman wrote:

> On 6/28/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:05:09 -0400, Aaron Fineman wrote:
> > > On 6/28/06, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> 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?
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > >
> > > > Stephan
> >
> > > i would say thats more a xfce, xfdesktop menu type thing that
> > > anyone can access, but just my 2.53 cents...
> >
> > Yes, this is something which could be used a) in the menu and b) in
> > a documents:// special URI handled by a Thunar plugin (in the
> > future).
> >
> > Concerning the menu, some already might know that I plan to
> > implement the XDG menu spec properly after 4.4. This also includes
> > a panel plugin as an alternative (or replacement?) for the current
> > Xfce menu. This menu widget might include recently opened
> > Documents, recently started Apps and even a "Run..."-like command
> > input field.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jannis
> 
> personally, i would advise against packing input widgets into the
> menu. it sounds like a good idea, but it really slows it down on older
> computers. on the other hand, an option to use the default light
> menu, or the new fancy pimped out one would fix that.

Yeah, that's true. It was just an idea because I hate "Run..." buttons.

> also, in recently opened documents, i would include websites, but that
> might be a problem intergrating with every browser in existance. is
> there an easy way to do that?

Normally, people browse through websites so fast that it would be
stupid to include websites in the list of recently openend documents.
They are already listed in the browser history and IMHO that's where
they belong.

- Jannis
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