Re: Recent Files

[William Kendrick <nbs sonic net>]

> 
> 	Today I was pondering the uselessness of the Recent Files menu in 
> Win9x (with it being full of files I barely recognize and still not having the 
> .mdb I opened just 2 hours ago) and I began to think there might be some 
> utility in the idea if it were implemented differently -- perhaps with a 
> separate list for each app that subscribes to the recent files concept.  Since 
> many of the gnome apps already keep track of their own recent files it may not 
> be too difficult to extend the idea to this.

Not a bad idea.  I don't know for sure, but most Gnome style apps
keep a list of recently opened files in a plaintext resource file.

One of the problems, though, is you open a file in gimp, then close the
file.  Then you go to reopen it with this new "recent file" listing..
but, since you hadn't quit the gimp, it hadn't saved it's list yet...

So it would probably be something that needs to be incorporated into the
gnome apps themselves.  Hrm

-bill!