On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Seif Lotfy <
seif lotfy com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Florian Müllner <
fmuellner gnome org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On dom,
2011-11-06 at 22:52 +0100, Seif Lotfy wrote:
>> > "What you see" for me doesnt necessarily mean that the program
>> > populates the jumplist alone. It means the items in the jumplist are
>> > prgram specific.
>>
>> To me it means that the application is in control of what appears in the
>> jumplist, not necessarily that it is responsible for specifying the
>> exact set of items. So I can imagine some "gnome-recent-items" action
>> which is translated appropriately by the shell if included in
>> the .desktop file, but I would not expect anything in the jumplist if
>> the application does not specify anything.
>
> However if the app doesn't specify a list why not have a fallback option.
> Mostly you will end up using it in cases like gedit, rhythmbox, totem,
> epiphany and event documents. In that case I suggest the usage of zeitgeist
> and not gtk.recentmanager. Since such lists are dynamic i don't find it
> appropriate to keep updating the .desktop file with recently/most used every
> time the app is used. If apps really would do that I would suggest them push
> directly into zeitgeist.
I've spoken to a few people about this before. My idea is that I'd