Launcher - Allow apps to easily add a list of 'recently used files' to their quicklists

Bug #893652 reported by John Lea
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Committed
Medium
John Lea
Unity
Opinion
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
unity (Ubuntu)
Opinion
Medium
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Bug Description

Launcher - Allow apps to easily add a list of 'recently used file' to their quicklists.

Description:
Add a list of the 5 most recently used files to the Quicklists of all applications that support Zeitgeist tracking. This list would be generated using Zeitgeist, and applications could opt out of this functionality by adding a simple statement like "ShowRecentFiles=false" to their .desktop file.

This list would be displayed in the quicklist as follows:

====================
[application specific quicklist options area]
--------------
[application name]
--------------
Windows:
[window title 1]
[window title 2]
[window title 3]
--------------
Most recent files:
file one.odt
file two.odt
file three.odt
file four.odt
file five.odt
--------------
Keep in launcher
Quit
====================

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John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: udp
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Launcher - Allow apps to easily add a list of 'recently used file' to
+ Launcher - Allow apps to easily add a list of 'recently used files' to
their quicklists
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This is a work item in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-zeitgeist, so I have to add a wontfix precise task to indicate that this gets postponed to Q. It seems we can't rely on this landing in Precise any more.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
assignee: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) → nobody
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Triaged
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) wrote :

Can we get this nominated for Q?

no longer affects: unity (Ubuntu Precise)
John Lea (johnlea)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Seth Johnson (sethj) wrote :

Core Unity developers will not be adding any new features to Unity 7 at this stage. As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 this bug is being marked as Opinion. While this bug is affecting you, and potentially others, we are not considering working on it so it won't get fixed by us. Other developers are free to pick this up and work on it. Sorry that we can't offer you help at this time.

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Opinion
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Opinion
tags: added: rls-w-incoming
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