P.S. This is perhaps a good starting point (describes how OOo dealt with the issue): http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75190
Bernhard Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2007, 22:25 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Reiter: > Under Gnome, files that are opened from within LyX (instead of e.g. > being opened from within Gnome's file manager by double-clicking them) > do not get listed in the "Recent files" menu. This is probably due to > Gnome switching from freedesktop.org (FDO) specs to a different format > (~/.recently-used.xbel) for keeping track of recent files -- and seems > to have concerned other projects, too. (See e.g. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/66933 ) > > It would of course be nice to Gnome-enable this feature. Unfortunately, > I have no idea what is the best way to achieve that. The following > options come to my mind: > > * Compile LyX against GtkRecentManager? > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/GtkRecentManager.html > * "Manually" add recent files to a ~/.recently-used.xbel file, if > present? (And what if it's not - we might still be dealing with > Gnome...) > * Wait for something to happen regarding FDO standardization? > > Any Gnome experts out there? > > Bernhard >
