Re: gnome-recent in libegg

[Alex Graveley <alex ximian com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:43, James Willcox wrote:
> >     * Should programs that edit the same file types have the same recent
> >       lists? (ie. is it the 4 last documents edited with GEdit, or the 4
> >       last text/plain documents edited?)
> 
> This seems like something the usability guys should decide upon, though
> gnome-recent would generally work well in either case (the current API
> calls for "appname", but that could simply be changed to "mime type").
> One problem would be if an app supported multiple mime types.  There
> wouldn't be any easy way to do that with the current code.

It could pass the application key as used in gnome-mime-data, and
gnome-recent could lookup the mime-types it supports automagically.

-Alex

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