Re: Recently Used Files Proposal

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:19 +0200, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> I've attached a prototype API for GtkRecentItem and GtkRecentManager
> (already set to live in libegg, for the time being). Let me know what
> you think of it.

Oh, BTW... to see what other systems do already, I looked at the Win32
API and Cocoa.

Win32 has a little set of functions:

SHAddToRecentDocs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shaddtorecentdocs.asp

"Most Recently Used" functions:
  CreateMRUListW()
  AddMRUStringW()
  EnumMRUListW()
  FreeMRUList()

These are all pretty trivial; they are really what one would use to
implement the core of your proposed GtkRecentManager, and the rest is
higher-level functions.  So you are on a good track, as they don't
really have anything more exotic than that :)

Cocoa doesn't seem to have much in this regard, or I couldn't find it.
I *think* its recent-files list gets maintained automatically if you use
their NSDocument classes.

Emmanuele, do you already have a working parser for XBEL using libxml2
or whatever?  This would be a good start to implement the API for GTK+.

  Federico