Re: Recently Used Files Proposal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 08:12 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:19 +0200, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > I've considered the option of making a menu, but I decided that we
> > should avoid it for latency reasons; applications might just have a
> > "Open recently used..." item which launches the dialog (many
> > applications already use a submenu, there's no difference for the user's
> > point of view), or we could add the ability to show recently used
> > resources into the GtkFileChooser, near where we put the bookmarks.
> 
> Aah, have you changed your mind about this? I haven't seen much
> discussion of this change of a de-facto UI convention. Not that I
> personally know what's better.

It sounds like a change for the worse to me. Its very quick to browse
the menu for the old file you were looking for. Opening a new dialog for
it is very heavy and slow, and its less likely you'll even see the "Open
recently used..." menu and understand what it does.

I think much fewer people will use the recent files feature with a ui
like this.

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