That does indeed mean it; it's what Emmanuele supposed and it turns out to
be right.
It's rather strange for a gtk+ app to do this, is there some kind of other
non-glib-based main loop running?

2008/7/26 Guido Berhoerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> * Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-26 17:56]:
> > I have no idea. the FileChooser only job is to read the file to get the
> > contents; I would expect to see a lot of read() operations.
>
> Yes, it gets only written, after the dialog is closed.
>
> > the only time when a gtk+ application writes to the recently used files
> > storage and it's not calling the GtkRecentManager API directly is when
> > the gtk+ main loop level reaches 0 - which is to say after the first
> > gtk_main() call in the whole application returns (this is needed to
> > ensure that the file is not left in an inconsistent state); all other
> > writes are definitely explicit. I seriously doubt that vim spins the
> > main loop and the stops it at every key press - it would be quite
> > insane.
>
> Thanks for the explanation, I'm not sure if I got it right, in
> the eventhandlers there is often code like:
> [...]
>    if (gtk_main_level() > 0)
>        gtk_main_quit();
> [...]
> If gtk_main_level() returns 1 and gtk_main_quit() is called, does
> that mean that the recently used files list gets written?
>
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