Gedit does not display latest files opened

[Lucio]

The Gedit text editor have a useful feature which is called "Latest Opened Files".

This feature list the most recent files opened on a list after click in an arrow close to the "Open" button on the Toolbar.

On my system, I click the arrow to get the list but all that I get is "No items found" where files name should be.

After a month of use, I've opened files on Gedit through command line, double clicking on Nautilus and under Gedit using the "Open" button and File -> Open... and File -> Quick Open... menus.

Still no recent file appears.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun May 18 16:33:29 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (30 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lorenz Mayer (lorenz-mayer)]

When will you fix the bug in Ubuntu 14.04?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Lucio (lucio-martinez)]

Thank you Sebastien. I have reported the bug on Bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742425

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1095305 might be a duplicate.

I'm wonder what the value for max.recents under org.gnome.gedit.preferences.ui in dconf is.

> The issue you are reporting is an upstream one

Upstream development happens in git master and 3.14 so upstream isn't too interested about reports from older, unsupported versions like 3.10. Furthermore, the UI (and the code behind) has changed a lot in 3.14 so it would be good if someone could first reproduce the problem on 3.14.