Re: State across application invocation

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 15:45, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2002, James Willcox wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 12:01, 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
> > 
> > gnome-recent stores URIs, so having any of the above should be fine.
> > 
> 
> Yes - but unless it knows about different categories, these will all get
> awfully mixed - you won't normaly want to see an email address in the
> 'recent files' list in say a text editor...

Well, I call them "groups".  See the updated recent-file spec for
details (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwillcox/recent-file-spec.html). 
However, that's not required for what you describe.  An app could simply
filter the list based on what mime types (and/or URI schemes) it
supports without having to use the group stuff at all.

Thanks,
James