Bug 79807

Summary:	"Recent Documents": Set number of documents
Product:	[Unmaintained] kicker	Reporter:	info
Component:	general	Assignee:	John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	angel_blue_co2004, kdedev, leo
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description info 2004-04-17 12:37:34 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

It should be possible to set the number of documents shown in the "Recent documents" menu.

Or if there is already such a setting, then it is very well hidden...

Others have suggested that one can set document types are saved (Bug 54627 and bug 72665) or that they are sorted into submenus (bug 70867) - this could be combined with my suggestion leading to the following:
Make it possible to set the maximum number of documents per type, e.g.:
show up to 5 text documents
show up to 3 web sites
show up to 0 mp3 files (i.e. ignore MP3)

Thanks
Stephan

Comment 1 Iraklis Evangelinos 2005-08-09 20:10:01 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 2 Markus 2007-12-17 22:39:24 UTC

I did some research on this topic and I found this on http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94040985829867

> To configure it edit [RecentDocuments] in kdeglobals. The keys are:
> UseRecent=bool #enables or disables recent menu support (default true)
> MaxEntries=num #maximum recent documents (default ten)

I have not tested it, because I do not use this feature, but maybe it works ;)

Comment 3 Denis Prost 2007-12-20 11:18:18 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion. But I tried it and it does not seem to work, at least with kde 3.5.8 : I added in kdeglobals :
---------
[RecentDocuments]
UseRecent=true
MaxEntries=20
------------
Not only it did not work, but it broke the recent documents management.
Maybe, some field names have been changed, since the mentioned link http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94040985829867
is quite old (1999 ?

Comment 4 Angel Blue01 2009-03-07 03:44:01 UTC

It would be nice to have this feature in Kickoff in 4.x

Comment 5 A. Spehr 2009-05-23 04:37:14 UTC

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

Comment 6 Leo 2018-10-15 04:43:13 UTC

Allow the user to configure the number of recent documents that Krita remembers.

Settings / Configure Krita / General / Miscellaneous / Recent Documents

Or perhaps better

Settings / Configure Krita / General / Sessions / Recent Documents

This would affect the file menu and the initial work space which also shows recent documents when none are loaded.

This is possible in KDE applications, as the Kate editor allows the user to define the number of recent documents.

Comment 7 TraceyC 2025-06-12 20:39:44 UTC

KDE3 is no longer maintained. If you still see bugs in Kicker, please open a new bug report. Thanks.