[Usability]Re: "recent documents" menu in panel

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Well ideally in gnome 2.2 the menu panel will be killed in favor of a menubar 
applet, not sure what the status of that is. However I do think this would be 
a nice addition to the panel.

dave


James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu> said:

> Hi,
> 
> As you might be aware, I've been working on a solution for
> storing/viewing recently used files.  Now that the code is becoming a
> little more complete, I would like to start integrating it so maybe we
> can get some of this in for 2.2.  One of the features I had
> in mind is a "recent documents" menu/sub-menu in the
> panel.  However, I have a few questions:
> 
> 1)  Do we want to have this feature?  Also, the current code does not
> show icons in the menu.  Do we want this as well?  What other UI
> considerations should be made?
> 
> 2)  It is my understanding that the panel uses VFolders to construct the
> menus (and gtk to draw them).  Plopping the current code into the panel
> would be easy, but it would not allow the user to move where the recent
> files appear.  Do we want allow this?  Is it even possible to do this
> with VFolders?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> (sorry for the cross-post, but I think both lists may benefit from this)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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