Bug 357542

Summary:	[Feature request] Working "Recently used files"
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Kubuntiac <user581>
Component:	panels: places	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugseforuns, david.cortes.rivera, kraeutermann, luwx, mahen, nate, simon.pfeifer, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Kubuntiac 2016-01-04 19:59:04 UTC

Hi there,

This is a combination between what I would consider a bug (which files show in Recently Saved > Today) and a feature request (to show folders used as well as files). ANyway, here's the description in more detail:

One of the most common features I use when using a GTK based app is the recent files / folders option. Most of the time you're just wanting to open or save something that you either just dealt with or in the location that you just used.

Dolphin, however does not seem to have an option to display recently used folders, or recently used files. There is the Recently Saved > Today option, however that seems to rarely show all of the files actually saved recently, even if they're saved from a KDE app while running the Plasma desktop (I just tested by saving a text file from Kate, and it isn't there).

Even if it did work though, it still doesn't display folders used, ie if I save test.txt in ~/Documents then ideally both test.txt and the Documents folder could be seen in "recently used".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on "Recently Saved" > "Today"
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Actual Results:  
Some files show up, but not most files saved recently, nor the folders they're saved in

Expected Results:  
All files saved today, regardless of what app created them, where or when (within this date) show up, as well as the folders they were saved in

Comment 1 Simon Pfeifer 2016-04-04 12:00:27 UTC

*** Bug 356439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-07-31 14:31:22 UTC

There is a workaround: navigate to "recentdocuments:/" and make a bookmark out of it.

But I agree that this should be there by default.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2017-08-20 18:40:05 UTC

I wonder how hard it would be to add that simple bookmark by default.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-08-20 23:07:06 UTC

Answer: not very hard. Patch available at https://phabricator.kde.org/D7446

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2017-08-21 02:22:13 UTC

Re-titling, since this patch does not (and cannot) add recently used folders, only recently used files. Hopefully that's good enough for folks.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2017-12-15 02:56:29 UTC

KDE Frameworks 5.41 includes the Recently Saved: Today and Recently Saved: Yesterday items in file picker/open/save dialog sidebars by default. It's not *exactly* what's being asked for here, but we're getting closer.

Comment 7 Mahendra Tallur 2017-12-28 23:33:23 UTC

Hi ! Glad to learn about the recent documents features :-)

I think the bug reporter mentioned this specific problem and I do encounter it too : timeline:/today  doesn't always show the right files.

For instance, even though the results of "yesterday" "this month" etc. usually look correct to me, the "today" query frequently yields strange results especially at the beginning of the day.

For instance, it's 0:30 am here, I saved a couple of files, which WERE indexed by baloo, but they do not appear in timeline:/today. 

Instead a single several months old file does appear there. And if I remember correctly, this specific files frequently appears in those results...

Does it ring anyone a bell ? Been looking for a relevant existing bug report before filing another duplicate :-)

Comment 8 Mahendra Tallur 2017-12-28 23:57:07 UTC

I filed the following bug which might be relevant to the timeline:/today "bug" I (and probably this bug reporter too ?) encounter.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388312

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2018-04-25 20:13:25 UTC

Marking this as a duplicate of the really really old one that first requested this, and we'll continue tracking it there:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110016 ***