Recent documents not logged on Uniy

Hello,

From my research so far, I am not sure what we can do: The recently used documents is managed by Gtk and since we use Qt we can only indirectly activate this API. But for example, since we use the "native" file dialog, documents that are opened using qpdfview's UI should appear in the recently used documents. The part for which I don't have a solution ATM is opening a document through an external program, e.g. your file manager which does trigger an addition to the recently used documents list. I'll continue looking for a proper solution...

Best regards, Adam.

This might be an open integration issue for Qt-only applications and I have asked on the Qt bug tracker about it: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-24629

Hi, Thanks for looking into it.

If open document thorugh the file manager or qpdfview itself the recent document list get updated and event is registered in ~/.local/share/recently-used-xbel. If search for a document in the dash and click open then list is not updated and event not registered.

I started a thread on the Ubuntu forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2264470

qt doesn't seem to be the reason after some experiments (e.g mpv and totem behave in the same way)

Reading up on the discussion, my first guess for the difference in behaviour of Dash would be that applications whose desktop file indicates that they can open URI (e.g. using %U) receive the recently-used treatment whereas applications that only indicate that they can open files (e.g. using %F) do not? But I am not sure where in the source of Unity and its dependencies I'd have to look for it.

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Still looking for a possible explaination of the behaviour...

Were you able to test whether changing qpdfview's desktop file to use "%U" instead "%F" for the invocation changes anything?

Hi,

Changing %F to %U makes no difference.

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