GtkFileChooser and ~/.recently-used.xbel

[Geoff Bache <geoff bache jeppesen com>]

Hi all,

Since I recently upgraded to GTK+ 2.12 I've been having a lot of trouble 
with my automated tests. Several of these make use of GtkFileChooser and 
they are typically run in parallel to each other. The problem is that 
normal usage of GtkFileChooser  (not attempting to make use of the 
recently used functionality which I didn't know existed until now) seems 
to frequently recreate the file ~/.recently-used.xbel and therefore the 
tests collide with each other as one removes what the others are trying 
to read.

Is there anything that can be done about this? Either configuring the 
location of the above file (although looking in the source it looks very 
hardcoded I must say...) or disabling the thing entirely? I've seen the 
trick of replacing the file with a similarly named directory but that 
causes lots of errors to be written to stderr, which I'd also like to 
avoid if possible...

Any advice appreciated.

Regards,
Geoff Bache