http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072#c Dominique Leuenberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dominique.leuenberger@tmf-g | |roup.com Severity|Normal |Enhancement -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072#c2 --- Comment #2 from Ricardo Cruz 2010-06-19 19:35:49 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=370297) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=370297) Work around script Atri, if this bug annoys you -- and I consider this a bug, not an enhancement, since it is showing applications that are no longer "recent" -- then you could try this python script. It checks whether more than 3 days have passed since ab-newapps.txt has been modified -- in which case, it removes the file. If the file doesn't exist (has already been removed, and no application was since added), os.path.getmtime() will launch an exception, and the script will terminate at that point. Add the script to Gnome startup applications. Give it executable permission. Notice I haven't tested it myself. Don't have an opensuse machine ATM. But it's a pretty simple script, though it did require some googling. (If you're learning C or sh, you could try to re-write it. ;)) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072#c4 --- Comment #4 from Ricardo Cruz 2010-06-19 19:45:44 UTC --- By the way, I wonder if it would make sense to use GtkRecentManager (instead of this file specific to application-browser) to memorize recently added applications. In a sense, a new application is just a file of mime-type "application/x-executable" that has been added to the system. However, you may already be using it to store applications which the user has run. But the two uses are not incompatible. Each GtkRecentInfo has a count of how many times it has been saved, as well as the last modified time. Either could be used to tell whether this is a new application, or a "modified" one (run by the user). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072#c6 --- Comment #6 from Ricardo Cruz 2010-07-24 09:17:00 UTC --- Sure, but you could dress the code in a loop: while True: # code time.sleep (1 * 3600) # sleep 1 hour Btw, there is a small bug there. I only check how many days have passed since last time the file was modified (if since.day > 3), so if you let your computer hitherto for a month, the script would think the file had been modified that day and not remove it. It needs adding: if since.day > 3 or since.month > 0 or since.year > 0 And of course, if you add a new or remove an application every 3 days, then the file never gets removed, and the "Recent" category doesn't get updated. But I hope we don't use this. I just came up with the script as a break for what I was doing. Though I suspect, the final fix will too involve looking at the file time-stamp, rather than coming up with a more elaborate time-stamp for each individual applications listed. I've looked at the application-browser code before, to address some other bugs, but the thing is that the code involves a core library (slab) that is then used, without very little means of control, by application-browser, yast2 control center and the gnome use. It isn't possible, for instance to have a context menu like "Add item to startup menu" for application-browser and not for yast control center (bug 254015). Not as it is presently designed. This may be time consuming for the current maintainers, but it's especially so for outsiders who are not entirely aware of all the code's corners. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591072#c8 Vincent Untz changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #8 from Vincent Untz 2012-05-15 17:00:04 UTC --- Sorry for the spam. I'm mass-closing gnome-main-menu/slab bugs: gnome-main-menu has gone unmaintained upstream because it's not usable in GNOME 3, and is not shipped since 12.1. I don't expect any maintenance updates for it in 11.4 either. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.