Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 65, Issue 4

[Jacob Beauregard <deadowlsurvivor gmail com>]

Claes, I disagree. I would think to make that the default action. 
However, it would be good to be able to disable it.

Initially I wasn't going to comment because I don't use the recent files 
list, but then I thought of some ways it could be improved.

The recent documents list, unfortunately, is completely useless to me. 
It is filled with temporary files that are no longer on my computer. It 
would be an improvement to filter out temp files. It would also be 
useful to get recent documents on a per application basis using file 
extensions (at least by assertion) that can be opened by that particular 
application.

My recent documents list:

1. A temp midi from archive.org
2-3. temp PDFs downloaded from Google search results.
4. A temp PDF generated by a script I wrote and was debugging.
5. Different temp copy of the first midi (1).
6-8. Three different temp downloads of the same javascript library.
9. SVN file I modified for a project.
10. Other file whose contents I added to the former (9).

Not useful in the least.

usability-request gnome org wrote:
> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:16:18 +0200
> From: Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>
> To: usability gnome org, xdg freedesktop org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from
> 	the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5
> Message-ID: <1252271778 7237 67 camel localhost>
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> On di, 2009-09-01 at 21:21 +0200, Claes H wrote:
>
>   
> > I would like to add to this a shared state / history between open /
> > save dialogs to make it easer to open in one application that was just
> > saved in another application.
> >     
>
> I don't think something special is needed for this actually. Apps that
> do a Save action should simply make sure they add the saved document to
> the Recently used file list. (Maybe this could be promoted to a Gnome
> Goal?)
>
> regards,
>
>