Hi; On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 14:47, Stefan Blachmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > All DMs and OSes (Windows, MacOS) provide a menu for recently used files. > The freedesktop "Recent File Storage Specification" was probably > intended as an unified means to provide freedesktop software users > with access to recently used files via a start menu. > The specification is here: > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/recent-file-spec/recent-file-spec-0.2.html > I'd like to point out that GTK (and GNOME) do not use this specification at all, which was actually replaced by this one: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-bookmark-spec/ Which, to be honest, has its own issues, like the use of XBEL instead of a decent serialisation format that specifies sorting; or the ability to merge multiple file sources, to deal with sandboxed applications; the fact that there's no well defined mechanism for sorting, filtering, and expiration of entries. Nevertheless, the desktop-boomark specification is an improvement on the old recent-files specification, and GNOME has been using it for nearly 15 years. It's also not really a "proprietary" solution, considering that it's listed on the freedesktop website; it was just never promoted as the actual specification, and left as a "draft" because of the general state of disrepair of the fd.o infrastructure. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com]
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