Recent Files plugin - GNOME-style

[Erik Harrison]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:55 +0100, Lasse Bigum <Lasse at hardwareonline.dk> wrote:
> Hello everyone :-)
> 
> Have been trying Xfce for some time on and off, but your new 4.2 release really
> got me hooked, now I just need ATI to supply me with some proper drivers for
> X.org to really shine :-)
> 
> Anyways, as part of giving back, I was thinking about coding a "Recent Files"
> thing, either as a plugin to the panel, or as part of the "Xfce Menu"
> plugin. But again, people might like to stuff it into the xfdesktop menu
> instead.
> So, what are your ideas about this?
> 
> Apparently there's already a standard for doing this, at first it was created as
> a thing for GNOME, but it grew into a freedesktop.org standard now it seems:
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2frecent_2dfile_2dspec
> This should make it rather easy to make that plugin. Also, following your list,
> it seems that you already have some rather powerful XML-parsing tools, so
> parsing the ~/.recent-files would seem trivial.
> 
> I've found the GNOME repo for their "recent files" thing (I think), but can you
> give me any other pointers and suggestions before I get started? It's been some
> time since I last did C, but I should manage :)

Just go for it ;-)

The seperator plugin just checks panel orientation and creates a
widget, so it may be a good basic plugin to start from if you need a
reference.

> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
> Regards,
> Lasse
> 
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