Wishlist: Clear Recent opened projects

[Silviu Laurentiu]

       Open Recents, do not have the possibility to clear the list. It will be helpful.
       Many thanks!

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Why would you need to do that? If you really need to clear it, why not edit the config file directly?

[Silviu Laurentiu (silviulaurentiu)]

So, let's consider that I work before with 20 projects. The main folder where they are placed is renamed. I this situation all 20 projects which are displayed in the recent list will not work and I need to remove them.
I don't know how to edit config file directory, please give me a bit help.

[Timothée Manaud (timothee)]

A smarter move than clearing the history of "Open recent" would be to check if file is available?

[Ian McInerney (imcinerney)]

@devs, a UI design preference question.

When the list is empty, what do we want the behavior of the menu to be? I see two possibilities:

1) Disable (but not remove) the menu entry in the main file menu, so that the menu can't be opened and it appears as grayed out.

2) Make a disabled entry in the file list that says "No files" that is only shown where there are no files.

I am leaning towards option 1, since I think it looks cleaner. Right now the menu is just empty (so on GTK it looks terrible because it is long and skinny), so whatever we do will be an improvement.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Ian, for some things which aren't clear (like unfold bus when the bus definition doesn't parse) we do include the "No whatever" entry.

But I don't think it's necessary in this case so I'd also lean toward (1).

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 99b9354a513364faa87c8db08cf95187d4520f26
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=99b9354a513364faa87c8db08cf95187d4520f26