[Tutor] Recent Documents
Timo
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Fri May 28 08:58:53 CEST 2010
On 27-05-10 20:45, John Storta Jr. wrote:
> I am working on an app that runs in gnome and uses gtk. I am extremely
> new to Python. (been working with it for all of 2 days).
>
> I am wanting to add a 'Recent Documents' menu option to the app. Gnome
> tracks your recent documents -- apparently in a file called
> '.recently-used.xbel' in your home directory.
>
> So as to avoid reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of any examples
> of accessing the Gnome recently used file list from within Python? Or
> is there some samples of how to implement something independently?
>
> It seems like the type of thing that would be fairly common as part of
> integrating a Python app with Gnome. I cannot image every app maintains
> their own list of recently used docs when it is already stored within
> the desktop.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>
PyGTK has some widgets that deal with that. See the PyGTK reference
manual and see the widgets that start with "Recent*".
Cheers,
Timo
>
> Thanks,
> John S.
>
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