SUMMARY In 5.25 (I have not yet tested in earlier versions, but someone on 5.24.5 confimed in #kde that they can't reproduce) Okular fails to list it's own "Recent Files" in your typical places, such as right-clicking a pinned task on the task manager applet. The menu is also missing in your typical app launcher widget. However, Okular seems to still correctly track these, so I suspect it's something to do with how plasmashell calculates which recent files are relevant, based on the .desktop MimeTypes. For example, Okular's main .desktop file only lists "application/vnd.kde.okular-archive". Note: I mention Okular a lot in this bug report, but this might apply to other applications too. It's just the easiest to reproduce with :-) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a couple of PDF's in Okular. 2. Notice how they are recorded correctly in Okular itself, and inside of the "Recent Files" menu located in any other Plasma widget. 3. The same menu (for relevant Okular documents) seem to be missing. OBSERVED RESULT No recent files can be found when right-clicking Okular. EXPECTED RESULT The relevant document types associated with Okular should show up, but no "Recent Files" menu even appears. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.17.1 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Please move this into it's relevant category if possible, I'm not exactly sure which part of the KDE stack actually deals with this specifically.
I found a possibly relevant commit, 02d6d0a4 in plasma-workspace called "RecentUsageModel: propagate mimeType to KFileItem ctor" that might be the cause. I'm going to try reverting that to see if is the issue.
(In reply to Joshua Goins from comment #1) > I found a possibly relevant commit, 02d6d0a4 in plasma-workspace called > "RecentUsageModel: propagate mimeType to KFileItem ctor" that might be the > cause. I'm going to try reverting that to see if is the issue. No that didn't seem to be the case, but I noticed there were a lot of commits touching mimetype handling in several KDE frameworks. I wonder if this should instead be fixed in Okular, like should it list all of it's supported MimeTypes in it's main .desktop file ala Krita?
I believe the main is how the file is opened: if it is opened from dolphin by double clicking the files will be visible in plasma widgets but files opened in okular through CTRL+O for instance won't be present in plasma activity history (what is used in plasma and dolphin's recent files). Can you confirm Joshua ?
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