Re: missing recent files

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:46 +0800, bill lam wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Nov 2009, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:55 +0800, bill lam wrote:
> > > I can find no "recent files" inside file menu. There is only a "full
> > > history" but that is sorted by file name and not that I want.  I
> > > compile gnumeric by myself, is that also missing in official built?
> >
> > I have the three most recently used files in the file menu just above
> > "full history" 
>
> Just above "full history" is "properties" in my file menu.  I'm using
> 1.9.9, as far as I recall, there was no "recent file" in previous
> versions that I compiled.  If that matters, I do not have gconf
> installed, and preference settings are saved in .gnumericrc
>
> Can you check under what condition will the "recent file" not
> be displayed?

Reading the code, you only have recent functions if at compile time
HAVE_GTK_RECENT_MANAGER_GET_DEFAULT
is true. So it depends on your configure run.

Andreas
>
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Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>