Add Recently Used File List to Desktop Menu?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Feb 27 16:08:24 CET 2004


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:14:35AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has attempted to add the ~/.recently-used file
> to their xfdesktop menu?
> 
> Reviewing the file structure of the above, it is an XML file, however in
> a markedly different structure than menu.xml of course.
> 
> Presumably one might be able to parse the file, reformat it into a
> menu.xml compatible structure and then ?insert it into menu.xml at an
> appropriate location on the menu tree. Perhaps even using some setting
> in the parsing script as to how many of the files would be listed (ie.
> last 5 or last 10).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

Interesting idea. Does it save the program the file was opened with as
well? If not, that may make things a bit more difficult.

	Jasper



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