Inkscape needs to support freedesktop.org recent files

[Theuraeus]

Hi,
there is a shared standard in gnome for recent files
which is currently supported by gedit, totem and
nautilus among others. Inkscape should really use this
stuff so that files you open in inkscape gets added to
the global gnome recent files list.

[Kidproto (kidproto)]

Shouldn't be terribly difficult to implement....

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Implemented.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Whoops, no this isn't implemented. My mistake. Reopening.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Yeah, this needs to happen. It is actually a
freedesktop.org standard though. Here it is:

http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/recent-file-spec

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

bumpign up priority
if this is not already implemented it is quite important
i believe there is generic code and or libraries to help
with this

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Actually, it turns out that this is a _proposed_ standard,
and is generally a "common hack", called "libegg" with has
been deprecated, sort of. Lots of details:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libegg/libegg/recentchooser/README?rev=1.2&view=markup

Looks like the "RecentChooser" is what we want. But it is
super-bleeding-edge. I suspect we should leave this RFE
alone for a little longer. Sounds like it'll make it's way
into GTK 2.10.x.

[vonHalenbach (lustik)]

Now, is this feature implemented in GTK 2.10 and is it stable enough to get implemented into inkscape? Is it still desired to put into inkscape, or should it be better not implemented. Is it something similar to the OCAL import-export?

[Krzysztof Kosinski (tweenk)]

Implemented in revision 20037 using GtkRecentManager C API (using the C++ API generates segfaults on document open for some reason).