SUMMARY Now we have Recent/Often-Used Documents/Applications/contacts, but in the "Documents" one there are both documents and "Locations" (e.g. the folders I visited with Dolphin). So a new Recent/Often-Used Locations entry could be welcome :) ... STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69 Qt Version: 5.14.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Agreed - for clarity, I'd hoped to get a "Recent Documents" menu that actually represents "recent documents" - similarly to on Windows. As Plasma 5's "Recent Documents" menu is cluttered with a mix of actual "recent documents" AND "recent locations" together, very few actual documents are shown. They're rapidly pushed out of the menu by virtue of simply browsing around the filesystem.
Yep, this should be changed. Especially with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/150/
Question: is there any way to manually clean out all the locations from 'Recent Documents?' Then I could at least 'fix' it with a cronjob or a hotkey. I tried deleting ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel, but that didn't do it.
The following seems to be working: sqlite3 ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/database "DELETE FROM ResourceScoreCache WHERE initiatingAgent = 'dolphin';" ; pkill -f kactivitymanagerd ; /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kactivitymanagerd & Not sure if this really safe or recommended, but at least it does seem to clear out all the clutter & make the menu behave properly if or until an official solution exists...
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/153
Git commit 72c6daa6364dccb894fe55af84acf6db7e709ebf by Alexander Lohnau. Committed on 14/07/2020 at 09:54. Pushed by alex into branch 'master'. Display only recent documents in Kickers "Recent Documents" M +1 -1 applets/kicker/plugin/recentusagemodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/72c6daa6364dccb894fe55af84acf6db7e709ebf
*** Bug 426610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, opened another bug report (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428085). Since those problems didn't affect Plasma 5.19 and previous version, could they be related to this fix?
(In reply to Paolo Zamponi from comment #8) > Hi, opened another bug report (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428085). > Since those problems didn't affect Plasma 5.19 and previous version, could > they be related to this fix? It might but I can't be sure. I am familiar with the underlying library and I reviewed the change and nothing looks suspicious. It might be but indirectly. Unfortunately I can't test and confirm right now.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6483
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3651
Git commit e0a0be206635f7c4bb926a0b5bcd1cd2c18520c5 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 22/04/2026 at 09:50. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: add locations option to RecentUsageModel/rootModel Kickoff has recently/often used locations as part of the history, but kicker and kickerdash only offer applications and files. This change implements an OnlyLocations type in RecentUsageModel, and adds a property to optionally add one to the RootModel. M +12 -3 applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.cpp M +1 -0 applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.h M +33 -1 applets/kicker/rootmodel.cpp M +7 -0 applets/kicker/rootmodel.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/e0a0be206635f7c4bb926a0b5bcd1cd2c18520c5
Git commit bd077886a9d98874fb06a2f392fad4ca742d72ed by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 22/04/2026 at 15:21. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: add Recent/Often Used Places option Kickoff has recently/often used places as part of the history, but kicker and kickerdash only offer applications and files. This change adds the option to have this as an entry in the main kicker view or dash sidebar. FIXED-IN: 6.7.0 M +9 -0 applets/kicker/ConfigGeneral.qml M +1 -1 applets/kicker/ItemGridDelegate.qml M +1 -1 applets/kicker/ItemListDelegate.qml M +1 -0 applets/kicker/main.qml M +4 -0 applets/kicker/main.xml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/bd077886a9d98874fb06a2f392fad4ca742d72ed
Really nice! Maybe we can turn it on by default, too?