Re: Recent Documents module

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

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.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> 2009/11/16 DEEPAK KUMAR <deepakk79 yahoo com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, imho, the main problem with the existing "Recent Documents" stuff is
> > that they treat everything as "Documents".  Dictionaries clearly mention
> > what a "Document" is. Its better to replace "Recent Documents" with "Recent
> > Items" or "Recent Files" and then allocating dedicated tabs to different
> > file types like Docs, Multimedia etc.,
> >
> >        This would really really alleviate the problem to some extent. It
> > will be even better to have separate tabs for custom file type extensions.
> >
> > But a "Recent Documents" list is definitely better than applications based
> > menus.
> >
> > I think this gnome-shell module has already one-uped  kde4 way of doing
> > things.
> > Aah! Love at fisrt sight.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
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