Changing status to confirmed, since there is an active upstream bug about this issue, which has not yet been resolved.
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Opening a deleted 'recent document' results in a new file. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/8949 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs