Bug 121305

Summary:	Implement a Recent Document filter to weed out certain file types
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Joshua <js>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.t.schulze, bugzilla, hhfischer25, kdebugs.99.urgwurz, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Joshua 2006-02-03 19:28:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I would like to see a way to filter certain file types/mime in Recent Documents under the KMenu for examples. Right now I see.... a site's cgi pages, a few other web scripts (seems to filter html but not odd extensions like cgi,vm) etc... It's not really useful now. Perhaps If I could select which applications use this?  Personally I only want to see documents such as kword,kedit,kate. No music, web pages, images I have viewed, etc... things I can or have edited I guess.

Comment 1 Janet 2009-10-25 20:56:18 UTC

Still valid for KDE 4: the recent documents in kickoff/lancelot are a muddled mess.

Comment 2 Janet 2009-11-28 16:05:30 UTC

The recent documents in kickoff/lancelot here only show the last 8 (lancelot) or 9 (kickoff, incl. trash-address) "documents". A search filter wouldn't help much IMHO. It would be better to be able to choose which filetypes should be shown in that list (and how many). By now I have a lot of web addresses and folders in that list and no documents. I don't want any web addresses in there and I don't want any folder addresses in there (those are no documents IMHO), I only want files in it like OpenOffice.org documents, pictures I've edited with gimp, music files I have edited with audacity - nothing I have just viewed, only files that I have edited. Maybe it is possible to set that as an option: show only edited files? At least all web and folder addresses should vanish from that list.

Comment 3 Peter Paulsen 2014-11-10 12:33:57 UTC

2014: Still the recent documents are a mess and not really usable.  It would help a lot if one could exclude certain filetypes like urls, html, etc,. E.g I only want to see what I call "documents", i.e. odt, ods, doc, txt - written texts. Maybe images I have edited with gimp - but they are not in the list anyways... at least I never found them there. The least to blend out would be "documents" that are not on my PC!

Comment 4 Torsten 2014-11-13 21:25:17 UTC

Still the same problem with KDE SC 4.13...

Comment 5 hhfischer25 2014-12-28 09:39:33 UTC

it would be "nice" to have the history customizable...
kubuntu 14.04

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-04-24 22:09:57 UTC

Doesn't seem likely, sorry.