gedit has lost the ability to specify the max-recents value

[Paddy Landau]

• Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 64-bit
• gedit 3.36.2-0ubuntu1

gedit used to have an option to change the number of recently-opened files in the Open dropdown button.

Later, that option was removed (I don't know why), but we could still set it as follows (in this case, I've set it to 30, because I need a lot in my history):
gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.ui max-recents 30

Unfortunately, even that has been taken away now, so there is no way to increase (or decrease, which some people say they need for confidentiality) the number of recent files listed.

Please could this option be reinstated, because the current limit is too restrictive.

Thank you

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the issue should rather be reported to the people writting the software on

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/issues/

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

The issue has already been reported (and closed as won't fix):
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/issues/315

[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

Thank you for the links, Sebastian and Daniel.

I've resubmitted a bug report, because the one that was turned down was specifically about max-recents in dconf, rather than about the functionality.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/issues/357

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

If they removed a dconf hidden setting, I think it's unlikely they will go out of their way to build it into the GUI, especially with the GNOME trend of removing configuration/options. You'll probably get the same answer if the bug is not considered a duplicate (i.e. "I don't think it's super useful to be able to customize everything in gedit.")
BUT..
For your sake, I hope I'm wrong and wish you luck.

[CarbonPepper (carbonpepper)]

If enough people ask for it perhaps they will re-instate it.

I find a max recents of 30 to be incredibly powerful in my work. Not every gedit user is a programmer or sysadmin.