Re: recent items list

[Herr Oswald <herr_oswald gmx de>]

Hello,

thanks for your message. I actually could reproduce your observations,
but only the very first time I tried to. Later on, nautilus behaves as
expected - most recently changed file go to the very top of the list.

At the control "visible columns" I set "date changed" to "visible" -
could it be the case that this may have helped?


Furthermore, I did some more testing on my PDF problem, with
interesting results:

* latest Gedit files always appear at top of the list, so do PDFs
created from gedit with the printer driver
* Inkscape files do as expected - no matter whether svg oder pdf or a
png export
* Scribus files do not at all appear - sla as well as pdf
* FreeCAD files do not appear - neither generic FreeCAD, nor export
formats like step, amf, stl etc

It seems that the "recent items instance" in GNOME (my guess is, that
this is the responsible bit) needs some impulse from all the apps
saving files. 

At the present state, I get the impression that on my machine the
"recent files" feature is of limited usefulness. Could please more
experienced fellows comment on that?

Cheers,
Wolf



Am Montag, den 18.02.2019, 11:02 +0100 schrieb rpr //:
> Dear Wolf,
>
> have a look at my question to this list sometimes ago:


https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2017-October/msg00000.html
> Maybe your problem is actually the same issue I noticed.
>
> -- rpr.
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 09:47, Herr Oswald <herr_oswald gmx de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > new to this list, I'm not sure whether it's the right place; if
> > not,
> > would someone please be so kind and direct me to the most suitable
> > one.
> >
> > I'm on GNOME 3.28.2 with ubuntu 18.04. 
> >
> > When I create a odt document, it almost immediately appears in the
> > "recent items" list of nautilus, or in the file picker of some
> > other
> > apps (tried evolution and LibO). 
> > But a PDF, created from my odt doc, takes a very long time (hours,
> > maybe days) to make it into the "recent items" list. But finally I
> > can
> > find PDFs there as well.
> > Is there any configuration I can try - or is it a bug?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wolf