Change what documents appear in "Open Recent"?
Is there any way in the Edit->Preferences menu, or by directly editing preference.xml (or some other configuration file that I don't know about), to change what documents appear in the "Open Recent..." menu?
The old behavior (circa 0.47) was that this menu only contained SVG files. I think it only contained files that I had opened (as opposed to importing), as well.
The current behavior (after 0.91 or possibly 0.92) is that it lists SVG, PNG, JPG -- anything Inkscape can import -- that I have either opened OR imported (possibly even ones I've only exported). The degree of clutter this creates makes "Open Recent" almost completely useless: most of the files listed are ones I would never want to directly open, and the ones I want to find scroll off the end in very short order. I wind up just ignoring it and going back to the regular "Open" file browser, which wastes a lot of time compared to my old workflow.
Is there anyway to simply recover the old behavior? (I mean, without having to re-compile!)
As a matter of new features for the future, it seems to me that "import" and "open" should have SEPARATE "recent document" lists, and that if you have imported a document recently, then you don't want to "open" it now, but rather "import" it. So there ought to be a separate "Import Recent..." and "Open Recent..." should ONLY list documents you've opened.
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