Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Recently there was a fix in GIMP exactly for this.
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gimp?view=revision&revision=27622
Alexandre
Actually this fix is for the reversed issue: clearing the list in GIMP nuked the entire GtkRecentManager, clearing recent lists in every application that uses GtkRecentManager as well. The behaviour exhibited in by Inkscape in Gnome is correct and expected. When you try to clear the list, you get this message:
If you clear the Recent Documents list, you clear the following: • All items from the Places → Recent Documents menu item. • All items from the recent documents list in all applications. <- note this!
We could create our own GtkRecentManager, but: 1. We would have to handle persistence ourselves. 2. Our files wouldn't show up in Gnome's recent list. 3. As I said before this "unexpected effect" is actually expected and useful.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński