where is the recently accessed file list stored

[Colin Law]

2010/7/21 yu huang <hybryant at hotmail.com>:
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:05:24 +0100
> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
>>..
>> So did Florian's post answer your question?
>
> No. My question is where is the list of files showed in Places->Recent
> Documents
> stored in ubuntu? And how does the system keep track of this information (or
> say
> how is the list of files maintained)

To quote from Florian's response:
The data is stored in ~/.recently-used.xbel
There is no central instance that manages this file, each program can
add, use or remove data at will.

Is that not the answer?

Colin