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 right-click on a launcher lists application's recently opened files

Created 8 months ago, edited 8 months ago.
Status changed 5 months ago
Author:

geoffm
Status:
Under dev. review 		  Score:
 -4
9 votes
Idea:

A feature I really like on Windows 7 and which I miss on gnu/linux DE's is to be able to access, for every application, the list of its last opened files and locations. I think it would be really great to see this on Linux Mint, as it greatly speeds up accessing files and locations in every day use.

The way I would like it to work is when I right click on a Launcher in the Menu or in the Panel, or even on a Window button in the Window List, the popup menu would list, above the other items, the 5 or 10 recently opened files of the application. It would be folders in the case of Nemo, web pages in the case of browsers, etc. It would also be nice of we could pin items to have them permanently available in the list.

Comments:

8 months ago

geoffm
Thanks for the explanation. I understand there might be implementation difficulties, I just don't know how the internal mechanisms are to note the applications' used files... i thought if Windows does it so well it shouldn't be impossible. However, if you make this feature optionnal, then you don't impose the negative footprint to every user.
As for the menu clutter, it could be easily solved by putting the recent file lists in a submenu. 		 
8 months ago

ElHaj

the idea is pretty good, the problem as @vincentv shared is implementation,
having a daemon behind you longing everything you do (there is already enough of those...)
and @vincentv have a tutorial on how to stop Zeitgeist
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1018

  
8 months ago

geoffm
I would appreciate that those who demoted this comment about why they think it's not a good idea. Personnaly I do not understand why anyone could NOT want this. In the worst case, it wouldn't bother anyone.

I hope it's not because it exists in Windows 7. That another DE adopted it first is not a good reason to refuse adopting a good idea. 		 

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