Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134413
Recent Documents folder does not refresh
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: The Recent Documents folder under the gnome main menu is static no matter how many file are opened/closed. Its own Clear Recent Documents option does not result in a change. However, it does work if nautilus/'File Browser' is open. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gamin-0.0.12-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open a file using a gnome app 2.Look for this file in Recent Documents menu 3. Expected Results: All files opened/saved from any gnome-aware apps should appear in Recent Documents menu. Additional info: I) Baseline situation. $ rpm -q gamin gamin-0.0.12-1 $ ps ux | grep [g]am_server john 9848 0.0 0.1 2856 1440 ? S 22:05 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server $ ls -l ~/.recently-used -rw------- 1 john john 0 Oct 1 22:25 .recently-used "Recent Documents" under the gnome main menu is grayed out and cannot be selected. All is ok at this point. II) Open a file using gedit (or OpenOffice.org or just about any Gnome aware app). $ ls -l ~/.recently-used -rw------- 1 john john 472 Oct 1 22:34 .recently-used $ cat ~/.recently-used <?xml version="1.0"?> <RecentFiles> <RecentItem> <URI>file:///home/john/gamin-bug.txt</URI> <Mime-Type>text/plain</Mime-Type> <Timestamp>1096684302</Timestamp> <Groups> <Group>gedit</Group> </Groups> </RecentItem> </RecentFiles> ~/.recently-used is updated. However, "Recent Documents" is still grayed out. III) If I log out and back in, then Recent Documents displays the file previously opened. Selecting "Clear Recent Documents" from the bottom of list does result in the ~/.recently-used being truncated to 0 bytes but the previously opened file is still listed in the Recent Documents menu (and the file links still work). IV) Starting the File Browser/nautilus app 'fixes' the behaviour. The Recent Documents menu is immediately updated to reflect the files listed in ~/.recently-used. Any files opened or created by any other app appear in the Recent Documents immediately. Clearing the list takes effect immediately. V) After closing File Browser, behaviour is inconsistent. Some new files get listed, some don't. Clearing sometimes does and does not work.
I think I have found the source of the problem and fixed it in gamin-0.0.14 available at: http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/downloads.html and which should show up soon on rawhide. Daniel
Daniel, It isn't quite fixed yet. Updated to gamin-0.0.14-1, logged out, made sure no gam_server process running and logged back into gnome. From gedit, using file open dialog box: First file accessed, no change to Recent Documents. Second file accessed, first file appears in Recent Documents. Third file accessed, second file appears. Select Clear All Documents and no change. Selecting 'Clear All Documents' repeatedly and still no change. Access another file, then Recent Documents are cleared. Looks like all events are being queued, but almost as if the 'signal' is being ignored and the second signal process the first event. With nautilus running (but not being used), the behaviour same as above and therefore worse than gamin-0.0.12-1. If the files are being opened from within nautilus (i.e. double-clicking from the folder window) then the Recent Documents folder is updated correctly.