Bug 281372

Summary:	Clear Recent Documents no effect
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, lamar.clark
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jonathan Kaye 2011-09-05 10:09:14 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

In the Recently Used tab of KickOff the list of Documents has nothing to do with the contents of ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments folder.The Kickoff tab does not respond to any changes of that folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Manually empty the ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments folder. Open new documents (clicking on them in Konqueror). Opening them from desktop shortcuts or KickOffs menu items. Nothing ever changes in the Document section of the Recently Used tab. Note that the Applications section works normally.
1. Look at the Documents section of the Recently Used tab of Kickoff.
2. Right-click in that section.
3. Click on the "Clear Recent Documents" item.

Actual Results:  
Emptied the ~/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments folder
Did not change the Clear the Documents section of the Recently Used tab of KickOff 

Expected Results:  
Emptied the Clear the Documents section of the Recently Used tab of KickOff.

Doing the same operation with Sweeper has the same (lack of) effect. The items in the Documents section of Recently Used tab of KickOff remain until a reboot. After the reboot the section remains empty for a time and then gets populated by older documents that may have been used several days before the reboot.

KickOff behaved normally until around 10 days ago. I have never experienced this problem before.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-09-05 12:31:44 UTC

> Doing the same operation with Sweeper has the same (lack of) effect

But does running Sweeper empty the RecentDocuments folder?

Comment 2 Jonathan Kaye 2011-09-05 12:43:26 UTC

Christoph Feck ha scritto il 05/09/2011 14:31:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281372
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> Christoph Feck <christoph@maxiom.de> changed:
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> --- Comment #1 from Christoph Feck <christoph maxiom de>  2011-09-05 12:31:44 ---
>> Doing the same operation with Sweeper has the same (lack of) effect
> 
> But does running Sweeper empty the RecentDocuments folder?
> 
Yes, it does. It also has no effect on what appears in the the Recently
Used tab. It behaves identically to a right-click and then clicking
Remove Recent Documents.
Thanks,
Jonathan

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2011-09-05 17:57:16 UTC

See also bug 244537 and bug 194003.

Comment 4 Lamar 2011-09-05 18:05:04 UTC

I can confirm this. I didn't have this problem until I installed the 3.0
kernel. Since updating the kernel I've experienced quite a few bugs, this one
is the first I noticed.

I'm not sure that the new kernel is the cause; in fact, it seems unlikely to
me. However, I didn't have any issues until I made the kernel upgrade.

My system:

Archlinux x86_64 linux 3.0
KDE 4.7.0
Nvidia 280.13-1

P.S. Jonathan, aren't you also running the Linux 3.0 kernel on your Debian
machine? FYI - I'm Pennyless from the KDE forum.

Comment 5 Jonathan Kaye 2011-09-05 18:55:38 UTC

Lamar Clark ha scritto il 05/09/2011 20:05:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281372
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> Lamar Clark <lamar.clark@gmail.com> changed:
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> --- Comment #4 from Lamar Clark <lamar clark gmail com>  2011-09-05 18:05:04 ---
> I can confirm this. I didn't have this problem until I installed the 3.0
> kernel. Since updating the kernel I've experienced quite a few bugs, this one
> is the first I noticed.
> 
> I'm not sure that the new kernel is the cause; in fact, it seems unlikely to
> me. However, I didn't have any issues until I made the kernel upgrade.
> 
> My system:
> 
> Archlinux x86_64 linux 3.0
> KDE 4.7.0
> Nvidia 280.13-1
> 
> P.S. Jonathan, aren't you also running the Linux 3.0 kernel on your Debian
> machine? FYI - I'm Pennyless from the KDE forum.
> 
Hi PennyL,
Yes, indeed: 3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64, to be precise.
ciao,
Jonathan

Comment 6 Jonathan Kaye 2011-09-07 12:16:42 UTC

SOLVED!!!
I had a kernel update this morning to 3.0.0-4.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64. After rebooting with this new kernel all the symptoms disappeared. This is consistent with Lamar Clark's suggestion or it could be a coincidence.

Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2011-09-10 19:45:01 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 281497 ***