.recently-used : provide a way to disable the logging

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 14:08 -0400, A. Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 12:18 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >> ma, 2008-09-15 kello 11:05 +0200, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk kirjoitti:
> >> > 2008/9/13 (R)om <rom1v at yahoo.fr>:
> >> >
> >> > > Every action taken is logged in ~/.recently-used and ~/.recently-used.xbel.
> >> > > It should be fine to provide a way to disable this (useless?) logging.
> >> >
> >> > It's definitely not useless: the documents are seen in Places → Recent
> >> > Documents (and the list can be manually cleared from there).
> >>
> >> That's certainly useful -- for some people. For a lot of us, the list is
> >> too short to be useful: the file I want has usually already dropped off
> >> the list, even if it's a file I use several times a day. As a result, I
> >> have stopped using the list and instead go directly to the file I want.
> >>
> >> I'd like to be able to change the length of the Recent Files list. (I'd
> >> change the length to zero.)
> >
> > Is there a way to disable this?  I've never looked in Recent Documents.
> > I have ~/.bash_history for that ;)  Hmm, I have the Search for Files
> > still in Places too, apparently.  Why does that stay there even though I
> > removed Tracker on first boot?
> 
> The file is written by Gtk+, not Tracker. gtk-recent-files-max-age=0
> in your gtkrc file should make it go away, per the documentation:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-recent-files-max-age

I figured Tracker would be the cause of Seach for Files, though.  Is it?

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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