Add Recently Used File List to Desktop Menu?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:33:25AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:08, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> Here is one segment from the file:
> 
>   <RecentItem>
>     <URI>file:///home/marcs/.xemacs/R.el</URI>
>     <Mime-Type>text/x-emacs-lisp</Mime-Type>
>     <Timestamp>1077812569</Timestamp>
>     <Groups>
>       <Group>gedit</Group>
>     </Groups>
>   </RecentItem>
> 
> 
> So, it appears that the "Group" attribute does store the application
> information, however I found other circumstances (ie. .bz2 files) where
> this was not the case and the "Group" was blank.
> 
> In my case, I am using Rox, so I could prefix the file path with "rox"
> and use Rox's "Set File Action" MIME setting to select the proper
> application. That does not help xffm users of course. 
> 
> I also just noticed another issue from the above file segment, which I
> had not before. It appears that not all applications (ie. XEmacs) update
> the file list. For example, if I use gedit to edit and save a file (such
> as above), the recently used list is updated. However, if I used XEmacs
> on a file, the list is unchanged.
> 
> That might suggest that there is a desktop (ie. GNOME/KDE) library
> specific functionality when saving a file, which would be a problem. I
> noted the same thing when using OpenOffice under XFCE4, whereas I am
> pretty sure that when I used to run GNOME, the OO.org files were on the
> GNOME panel recently used file list.
> 
> Does that make sense?  If so, then the value of my thought would be
> diminished.
> 

It is certainly up to the program to support this. A bit strange that
OO.o works differently under GNOME, but that's also the case for
folowing theme changes.

	Jasper