Bug 478665

Summary: Can't disable recently used files.
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: vexxed975
Component: kcm_recentFilesAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: ad.liu.jin, meven29, meven, nate, tbertels
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397487
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Description vexxed975 2023-12-17 21:01:24 UTC 
SUMMARY
Behavior option to disable recent files is not functional. I've set it to do not remember multiple times and the setting gets reverted to keep files forever and the list gets repopulated.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Launch System-settings and navigate to workspaces > behavior > recently files
2. Attempt to disable
3. Test things out for a while/reboot/etc 

OBSERVED RESULT
Recent Files begin populating despite having disabled it. The setting had reverted to keep files forever.

EXPECTED RESULT
Disabled file history.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This setting is also borked in Manjaro as well where you can't even click apply on it.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-12-21 00:37:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 478397 ***
Comment 2 Jin Liu 2023-12-22 11:21:36 UTC 
I think https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478397 is a different problem, and it's fixed. And I guess that fix doesn't solve this bug.
Comment 3 Méven Car 2024-01-28 10:24:35 UTC 
Where can you see those recentlyused files ?
I am guessing at least in dolphin `recentlyused:/files` and in the file ~/kde

Then let me ask: Are all applications concerned?
I suspect KDE Apps will abide to the setting but not others apps (GTK).
Comment 4 Méven Car 2024-01-28 10:25:38 UTC 
"the file ~/kde", I meant` ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel`.
Comment 5 Méven Car 2024-02-19 09:16:37 UTC 
This might be a duplicate of 397487 except https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/c641ae122fdf90e890e845aa1d8cb4ba8c42a8f2 has not been backported (yet).
Comment 6 Thomas Bertels 2024-07-17 15:23:21 UTC 
I can't reproduce on Plasma 6.0.
The apply button works fine right now on Manjaro.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 397487 ***