On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 17:06, Fourhundred Thecat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > how can I disable the "recent" functionality in meld? > > > Meld creates files such as these: > > ~/.local/share/meld/recent-p260e59z.meldcmp > > and shows the history in > > files -> open recent > > I looked in preferences how to disable this, but did not find any option. > > When I make the directory ~/.local/share/meld/ unwritable, meld reports > error and does not even start: > > PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: > '~/.local/share/meld/recent-p260e59z.meldcmp' > > I consider this history "feature" as evil. The idea of opening files > from history instead of from file paths seems confusing. How do you > distinguish files with same names, but in different locations ? > Recent comparisons are stored using file URIs (or paths on older versions). > Anyways, How can I disable this misfeature? > There's no preference for this, and I am not interested in adding one. > If there is no option in preferences, can somebody suggest how to modify > the python code to disable this ? > The core of the recently used handling is in `meld/recent.py`. It's probably possible to simply return from a few functions there to get empty files lists and not add new entries. cheers, Kai
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