Bug 54627

Summary:	Recent documents could be made more useful
Product:	[Unmaintained] kicker	Reporter:	GB <giovanni.bobbio>
Component:	general	Assignee:	John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	angel_blue_co2004, kae
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description GB 2003-02-14 11:08:18 UTC

Version:           1.1 (using KDE 3.1.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 20030131 (prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20

The Recent Documents menu item almost invariably contains lots of useless stuff, especially whatever comes from browsing the web with Konqueror (realplayer links, pdf's, URLs that somehow got there). The place I would look at for such stuff is Konqueror's history, anyway.
What I really am looking for is links to documents I have been working on, to continue work.
And a bug, I suppose: there are items with an empty description in this list. They work if you choose them but they are no use since I don't know what they are.
I would suggest that someone (usability team?) rethink the policy about what gets put there.

Giovanni

Comment 1 Denis Prost 2005-01-28 10:36:20 UTC

It seems that empty items come from toplevel web pages (eg www.kde.org). I would suggest that for web pages the title of the page would be displayed in the recent documents menu instead of the last part of the URL (things like "pb.cgi", "cedule_tnh.htm" are not very user-friendly).
Also I agree that one should be able to deactivate this feature, keeping only local documents in the recents menu.

Comment 2 Kae Verens 2005-12-07 14:58:34 UTC

I agree. it would be nice if it was possible to select either what mime-type (or extension) was tracked, or even to say "only files opened with BLAH will be tracked".

Comment 3 Angel Blue01 2009-03-07 03:45:41 UTC

It is not at all clear how items get put there, although I also agree with the issue's recommendation

Comment 4 A. Spehr 2009-05-23 04:35:55 UTC

Kicker is currently unmaintained, you can look to your distribution for help, however.