KDE recent documents

In KUbuntu in "Application Menu", there is the "Recent Documents" container-item:

I suppose other DEs also have something similar.

What is the way to add there some document manually?
(E.g. to put a *.desktop file into some specific folder, or to run some command similar to xdg-open, or etc.)

Sasha

Posted 2017-03-04T10:49:11.667

Reputation: 44

Answers

You could enter find ~ \( -type d -or -type f \) -iname '*recent*' to get a list of files and directories that contain recent, Recent, RECENT, or some other case permutation thereof, in their names that exist in your home directory -- -iname means case insensitive name. Then, it would be a matter of inspecting the results one by one.

In my case (Debian Testing), it's in ~/.local/share/RecentDocuments.

Larssend

Posted 2017-03-04T10:49:11.667

Reputation: 2 941

Yeah, but I'm also interested about some standardization (and good ways to do it). E.g. is ~/.local/share/RecentDocuments standardized somewhere or just used de-facto in other environments? Are there some ways to manage it (e.g. console commands) except manually adding files? (I.e. I'm interested in both theory and practice, not only practice.) – Sasha – 2017-03-04T13:36:42.813

Other environments use different things. In Cinnamon, for example, the list of recently accessed documents are kept in an XML file .~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. What are you trying to do, exactly? It seems to me you're looking for a way to abuse the recent documents mechanism. There's no such thing as theory in this regard, only conventions. Every desktop environment has its own conventions. – Larssend – 2017-03-04T14:49:14.060

Ok, now your answer seems to be full. I'll accept it (although it's better to specify that different DEs use different ways directly in the answer). – Sasha – 2017-03-04T14:56:19.723

I'm looking to the way to manually add items in the cases when they're not added automatically (e.g. VirtualBox in KDE doesn't add recently-used virtual machines into the recent documents list). But, of course, I search for right ways to do it — rather than a dirty hack that will stop working tomorrow. – Sasha – 2017-03-04T14:59:11.927

Hmm... – Sasha – 2017-03-04T15:12:34.293

All,

There are 3 categories of "Recents" that can be displayed. I personally switch to the "classic" menu view where these are easily displayed. All there are added/deleted/modified in the "kdeglobals" file usually found at:

    ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

and should contain these:

    [Recent Applications]
    MaxEntries=20
    UseRecent=true

    [Recent Documments]
    MaxEntries=25
    UseRecent=true

    [Recent Installed]
    MaxEntries=20
    UseRecent=true

Changing UseRecent true/false determines which show, but you'll notice the MaxEntries is set elsewhere, controllinng a "cat" or "trail" read of the containing log file, so unless you find where to change that default "file read" you'll max at only 10 items read/displayed.

I'm hunting for that as you see I want to exceed the "10" limit.

Cheers!

OMR

OldManRiver

Posted 2017-03-04T10:49:11.667

Reputation: 29

Thanks for the bits of info. But how does it explain how to add an entry? – Sasha – 2019-02-27T15:53:23.273