Lets avoid the fact that this is by MS, it is still useful to look at. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/jump-lists They distinguish between recently and frequently used too
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Seif Lotfy <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me elaborate, > One of the main ideas of jump-lists are not only actions and recently used > stuff. But also frequently used. Recently used as it is now is not helpful. > On a busy day I open several files (around 16) using gedit. Now I go to > the gedit icon in the dash. The right-click displaying the last 7 items is > not always helpful. Some of those items are things i would *not* open again > or maybe i was just browsing through code. Such items are "noise" that > populate the list taking slots that could be filled by > more promising files". To know those I need to know which of the files I > used today, I also used Yesterday (this is a feature missing in > gtk.recentlyused since it overwrites the dates) or used more than once in > the last N days (gtk.recentlyused has no concept of frequency) > Assuming that anything i open "frequently" will appear under > gtk.recentlyused is risky since the only order we have is chronological > order. With Zeitgeist its easier to detect such noise, by knowing the > count, which allows us make more use of the slots. > 4 recently used + 4 most used (within the last week). > Cheers > Seif > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Seif Lotfy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What about frequent files? >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Matthias Clasen < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Frederic Peters <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Hello all, >>> >> >>> >> + Jumplists >>> >> https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Jumplists >>> >> → didn't heard much opinion of it from designers >>> >> >>> > >>> > Jumplists is predicated on choosing an engine like zeitgeist. So >>> there is a >>> > bigger question on how to implement it and using what technology. No >>> > decision has been made on zeitgeist itself, and I don't believe Seif >>> has >>> > introduced Zeitgeist as a feature. >>> >>> I don't think jumplists require zeitgeist. >>> Static jumplists work fine by just reading desktop files. >>> 'Recent files' require, well, recent files. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-devel-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >>> >> >> >
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