Re: gnome-recent in libegg

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 04:24:21PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just to toss this out - we probably would really like Open Office,
> > maybe Mozilla (for HTML docs? or recent URIs?), KDE apps, etc. to
> > participate in this.
> > 
> > So I wonder if we couldn't design things such that these apps could
> > use them. Maybe with a freedesktop.org spec. Should be pretty simple
> > to do it that way - the data being stored isn't fundamentally
> > complicated.
> 
> While I agree with the sentiment I doubt this is feasible.  Both OO
> and KO already have their own mechanisms for this.

Apps can easily mirror recently used docs to two locations. 

Plus it blatantly has to be standardized someday. We may as well do
something that can be the standard, instead of growing the swamp as
Jim puts it.

Havoc