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josinalvo
Asked: 2012-12-17 09:36:55 +0800 CST

search on 'open' dialog is out-of-date

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If I have saved a file recently (or even on the last couple of days), it does not show up on searches on that "open dialog" some programs have

(The "open dialog of programs" is the following. It appears on libreoffice and on firefox)

I am wondering why this search is not up-to-date: what is the infrastructure behind this search ? Does it update some sort of index from time to time ? How could I configure it to do so more frequently ?

nautilus

1 Answers

  1. The Recently Used list you referring to is stored as an xml file ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Following is an example

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xbel version="1.0"
      xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks"
      xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"
>
  <bookmark href="file:///home/Usename/Firewall/fwbuilder.fwb" added="2012-11-07T04:33:55Z" modified="2012-12-20T05:31:26Z" visited="2012-11-07T04:33:55Z">
    <info>
      <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
        <mime:mime-type type="application/octet-stream"/>
        <bookmark:applications>
          <bookmark:application name="fwbuilder" exec="&apos;fwbuilder %u&apos;" modified="2012-12-20T05:31:26Z" count="4"/>
        </bookmark:applications>
      </metadata>
    </info>
  </bookmark>
  <bookmark href="file:///home/Usename/Desktop/limit_test.py" added="2012-12-16T04:48:29Z" modified="2012-12-16T06:02:28Z" visited="2012-12-16T04:48:30Z">
    <info>
      <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
        <mime:mime-type type="text/x-python"/>
        <bookmark:groups>
          <bookmark:group>gedit</bookmark:group>
        </bookmark:groups>
        <bookmark:applications>
          <bookmark:application name="gedit" exec="&apos;gedit %u&apos;" modified="2012-12-16T06:02:28Z" count="16"/>
        </bookmark:applications>
      </metadata>
    </info>
  </bookmark>
  <bookmark href="file:///home/Usename/Firewall/gateway.int.apple.com.fw" added="2012-12-20T05:32:03Z" modified="2012-12-20T05:35:25Z" visited="2012-12-20T05:32:03Z">
    <info>
      <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
        <mime:mime-type type="application/x-shellscript"/>
        <bookmark:groups>
          <bookmark:group>gedit</bookmark:group>
        </bookmark:groups>
        <bookmark:applications>
          <bookmark:application name="gedit" exec="&apos;gedit %u&apos;" modified="2012-12-20T05:35:25Z" count="3"/>
        </bookmark:applications>
      </metadata>
    </info>
  </bookmark>
</xbel>

    It is a facility/feature of the GTK+ library/framework.

    The reason of inconsistency between software, including software using GTK+, is because author of individual package/software may choose to use or not use it. There is no law/rule to enforce that. Some author may choose to not provide a recent list in their software. Some may implement their own. Some may use it with filter for file type(file extension).

    There is no right or wrong about this. This also happen to software running on other OS, not only Linux.

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