Re: State across application invocation

[Steve George <s rascal org>]

Hi,

According to his advogato post he's already sent his work into the
freedesktop.org people for consideration.

http://advogato.org/person/snorp/

It sounds like the specification would not be limited to files only - anything
with an URI would work:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwillcox/recent-file-spec.html

Cheers,

Steve

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:03:36PM +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> hi all,
> Isn't recent files handled by the new gnome-recent library being
> developed in GNOME CVS?
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=gnome-recent
> 
> And as for coordination with other projects I think that should only be
> done when it is clear that such coordination is reasonable feasible. Not
> implementing feature X for 2 years due to waiting to get everyone to
> agree is only shooting ourselves in the foot. I think the vfolder
> standard is a good example on how to do it. Write a specification and
> send it to XDG list and if people like it (after some
> input/modifications of course), then great; if not then we still have
> the new functionality ourselves and it can not be said we didn't try.
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 19:01, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:54:43PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > 
> > > For recent files sure, but for most things not really. And you can
> > > always use a gnome-vfs monitor on the filename.
> > > 
> > > For recent files as miguel suggests we might have a dedicated API for
> > > recent files only.
> > 
> > I'd rather not see this limited to files.  While implementing the
> > 'insert hyperlink' dialog for gnumeric I noticed that MS Office has
> > access to recent
> >     - files
> >     - urls
> >     - email targets
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