Re: Recently Used Files Proposal

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

> > IMO providing a
> > menu is vital for this proposal to be accepted. Users like the
> > recently-used menu very much and I don't think we should take it away
> > and replace it with an inconvenient popup dialog.
> 
> A menu would never give enough informations on the recently used
> items: apart from an icon associated to the mime type, we won't know
> their location, or when they were accessed; so, given that we should
> provide a tooltip for each item (with an API for adding custom text,
> maybe), a menu could be also implemented.
> 

Emmanuele, really the best way to provide access to recent items in
application is menu. The main idea of recent file is to allow open new
file without dialog, while you suggestion is to replace one complex
dialog (FileChooser) with another one (RecentChooser).

But in panel menu, such dialog can be useful. What do you think about
implementation of your proposal as panel applet?