Re: Some general facts about panel and gnome

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>> I think it might be necessary to implement this at a lower level than Gnome,
>> and provide a Gnome interface on platforms that support this feature. On
>> Linux, I would think the vfs could provide a list of files recently modified
>> by a particular user, although I doubt the kernel hackers would want to add
>> this feature.
>
>Not really.  We just need to spec out a convention, and suggest to
>other programmers to stick to this convention.

OK, good. Would it be possible to maintain a list of recently modified files
within gnome-libs, with accessor functions like gnome_recent_files_add_entry,
gnome_recent_files_get_list etc, and with duplicate checking etc handled by 
Gnome? I guess we don't need every file modified by mv, cp -R etc to appear 
on the list, so we don't need to worry about gnome-aware shell tools. Are 
there security issues I'm overlooking?

Michael Rogers