Re: State across application invocation

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, 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

So basicly this would be a 'dictionary of stacks' API where to some
possible key ("file", "vcard", "mailbox", "e-mail", "pizza", ...) would
correspond either a stack of recently accessed/used items or an empty
stack (aka nothing) ?

	Sander

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