Re: Recent Documents module

["Fernando C.V." <ferkiwi gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Emmanuele Bassi
<ebassi linux intel com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 11:33 +0000, Bob Hazard wrote:
>> This is also going to need a Private Browsing Mode like firefox to
>> hide embarrassing filenames/thumbnails.  I have to blur that list in
>> my screenshots (for security cough cough)
>
> or a way to delete single items from the list, since a desktop-wide
> "privacy mode" would require that every application do not register
> files at all - thus it would require changes in the toolkit (recently
> used files are handled by gtk+) and/or the applications.

In my opinion, it would be much better if the items I don't want to
see in the recent documents could be "hidden" instead of deleted.

Maybe I do want all the items to be registered and store them in the
history but I do not want them to be listed in the "Recent Documents"
list of the overlay every time I access to it. Maybe I just want to
flag the items so that they are not shown in the list, but I still
could access to them if I do an explicit search. I think that's a much
better solution than the out-of-record approach of firefox.

The New-Tab screen of Google Chrome browser has a nice interface for
that. When you hover the mouse over a website thumbnail you can either
stick it to be always shown or remove it, to be never shown. All the
other unsticked items are your Most-Frequently/Recently-Used.
It's a mix of sticked (or "favorite") items, and most-recently-used
that are not removed/hidden.

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Fernando