Re: EggRecent [was Re: libomelette [was Re: glib unicode regular expression api]]

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM> writes:

> You would probably just want an unremovable "Recent" bookmark, which
> made your recent files show up in the list on the right. (Which is
> pretty much how they do it on Windows-- well, in some apps anyway.)

That would indeed be a clever way which doesn't add clutter to the dialog.

> It's certainly more clicks or keystrokes, but it does have the advantage
> that you could show a lot more recent files in the dialog than you could
> on the menu.  I doubt if that's reason enough to make a complete switch,
> but there's no reason why the two methods couldn't co-exist I suppose.

Makes sense to me as long as the established way of doing it is kept.


Sven