Re: file chooser and recently used dirs

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:23 +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> This message comes after a discussion on the gimp-user mail list, but I
> think it can be usefull for other apps as well.
> 
> One of the results of the discussion is that will be helpfull if a list
> of the mostly recent used directories can be presented in the file
> chooser save dialog.
> 
> There is yet "Recently Used" (files), but for saving is better to have
> "Recently used dirs" for an easy browsing to the destination directory.

if an application registers a directory inside the recently used
resources list, it will also appear inside the Recently Used shortcut of
the file chooser.

there's a bug open for making the file chooser save the current
directory when in SAVE and SELECT_FOLDER mode[1], but it's missing an
implementation.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478193

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