Re: How does one add an item to the “recently used” file list (from Python)?

[Laurence Gonsalves <laurence xenomachina com>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:13 PM, infirit <infirit gmail com> wrote:
> That is how you do it, however you _require_ a main-loop running for
> this to work. Working example below.
...
> from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib
>
> def on_timeout(manager):
>     res = manager.add_item('file:///home/user/example.txt')
>     print(res)
>
> recent_manager = Gtk.RecentManager.get_default()
>
> GLib.timeout_add(5000, on_timeout, recent_manager)
>
> Gtk.main()

Thanks! Is it necessary to use timeout_add? I noticed that I can call
add_item before starting the main loop, and it seems to work once the
main loop is started. I'm not sure if that's relying on undocumented
behavior, however.

I also want to quit the process right after adding the items. This
seems to work:

    recent_mgr = Gtk.RecentManager.get_default()
    for file in args.files:
        uri = GLib.filename_to_uri(os.path.abspath(file))
        recent_mgr.add_item(uri)

    GLib.idle_add(Gtk.main_quit)
    Gtk.main()

But again, I'm not sure if this relies on undocumented behavior. (For
example, I noticed that I need the idle_add to be after the add_item
calls, or else the add_item calls never really "execute". I guess this
makes sense if add_item is also effectively adding an idle handler,
but I don't know if this behavior is documented or if it just works
"by accident".)