Re: How to get rid of "recently used" entry in file chooser

[Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy gmail com>]

Hi John,

Sad that there is no way to switch back to the old behaviour - at
least the blog post explains why I have to suffer even when using
GTK-2.x. GTK3 seems to line up fine with Gnome3 ;)

- Clemens

2011/11/25  <jcupitt gmail com>:
> Hi Clemens,
>
> On 25 November 2011 15:20, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy gmail com> wrote:
>> After updating to Fedora 16 (or was it 15) the gtk filechooser by
>> default selects an item called "recently used",
>> which bothers me quite a bit. Is there any way to hide this entry, or
>> select the home directory by defaut?
>
> Federico wrote an interesting blog entry about this change:
>
>  http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2011-07.html#01
>
> It doesn't answer your question, but it does give some background and
> recommends a way to use the chooser.
>
> John
>