On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:52 AM, John Emmas <john...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Yesterday I mistakenly posted this to gtk-list when it should probably have > come here... sorry. > > Anyway... I'm working on an app which uses a GtkFileChooser dialog. Let's > say I use it to open a file. Next time I launch the GtkFileChooser I'll see > an entry called "Recently Used" which lists the file I opened last time. As > the number of entries increases, they get saved in a persistent file called > "recently-used.xbel". This all seems to be a feature of gtk+. There's > nothing in the actual app that handles any of this. > > Currently we're using gtk+2 (as opposed to gtk+3). Is there any way I can > modify what gets saved in 'recently-used.xbel'? For example, if I DIDN'T > want it to include files with a particular extension, does the existing code > provide any mechanism for achieving that? In other words, I want the user to > be able to select files of that type - but I DON'T want them to get listed in > 'recently-used.xbel'. > > Or alternatively... if I ONLY wanted it to include files with certain > extension(s) can I specify that somehow in my application? Thanks.
There's no direct api to achieve this. You can probably get it done in a few lines of code with GtkRecentManager::changed and gtk_recent_manager_remove_item(). _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
