When I hit the "⯆" arrow next to the Open button on the toolbar, I am presented with a list of 25 "recent documents". The problem is that when I'm in Calc (or just recently launched Calc because I want to open a recently used spreadsheet quickly without going through my file manager), I care only about spreadsheets, and yet Calc shows me the 25 most recent documents regardless of whether they are spreadsheets or not. So out of 25 items, maybe 20-23 are Writer (.odt) files that are just cluttering up my view. Conversely, the same can probably also be said of Writer, Impress, etc. Typically when I am in Writer I care about text documents, not the rest. There are two approaches I can imagine to solve this: - Filtering the "recent documents" menu to fill the 25 entries with only entries relevant to the application type it is called from - Alternatively, if you still want to have your cake and eat it too: use two columns in the menu, populated with 10 (or more) entries each. Indeed, https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkMenu.html (don't know about other APIs) lets you have multiple columns. You could therefore have a layout with some *bold* headers, such as: ---------------------------------------------------------------- | *Recent spreadsheets* | *Other recent documents* | | 1. Foo | 1. lalala.odt | | 2. Bar | 2. sales pitch.odp | | 3. Baz | 3. TPS report.docx | | 4. Marketing budget | 4. War and Peas.odt | | | 5. Tools Story.odt | | | etc. | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | Clear List | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | Open Template... | Open Remote File... | ---------------------------------------------------------------- These two approaches would have the advantage of being able to show MORE application-relevant file choices, rather than having them buried/outweighted by other file types. If however you strictly want to retain a single menu column with all-file-types in it, there are other solutions, probably less appealing for the user: - A checkbox in the menu for "[x] Show only documents relevant to the current application" - Using a different color (or bold type) to differentiate the documents for the current application vs the ones meant for other LibreOffice applications to open.
>- A checkbox in the menu for "[x] Show only documents relevant to the current application" that ^ may be... and -1 for all other from me opportunity to open any support recent files from any modules is very good for me. I like to see ALL my recent files inside any module of LO UX-team, what's your opinion?
a duplicate, and alternative of bug 84169 to indicate the app (by icon) that would open--for "visual" filtering. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 56696 ***