Re: [gnome-love] gnome-recently-used and libgnomeui

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 20:35, Chema Celorio wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 16:52, James Willcox wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get involved with GNOME platform development, and saw the
> > list of tasks Chema posted a while ago
> > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/2001-October/msg00008.html),
> > and I would like to do thte glade2 recently opened files thing.  Other
> > projects (ggv, for instance), uses the gnome-history API.  It appears
> > that this has been deprecated for GNOME-2.0, in favor of
> > gnome-recently-used, which is supposed to be in libgnomeui.  I
> > downloaded/installed libgnomeui from CVS, and the gnome-recently-used
> > stuff is not there.  Anyone know the status on this?  Am I looking at
> > the wrong library?
>
> No, you are looking at the correct library but it was removed from
> libgnomeui because we had to drop some stuff because 2.0 was taking too
> much time. It will be great to have something in there for the future as
> this funcionality is going to have to be duplicated several times in the
> different applications. The second part to the task of adding it to
> glade2 is proposing and implementing and API that can be used by apps in
> a generic way.
>
> regards,
> Chema

The second part?  Shouldn't that really be the first part, and then once
it's done apply it to glade2?  I could write up an API for this fairly
quickly I think (I mean, c'mon, it's a list of filenames).  I was
thinking of something close to the old gnome-history stuff.  It was nice
and simple.

Thanks,
James