Bug 55922 - Remove Libre-Office's "file"->"recently used docs" from the Dock menu in OSX>=10.8
Summary: Remove Libre-Office's "file"->"recently used docs" from the Dock menu in OSX>...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Khaled Hosny
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Whiteboard: target:7.5.0 inReleaseNotes:7.5
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Blocks: macOS-UI-polish
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Reported: 2012-10-12 14:03 UTC by Johannes Weberhofer
Modified: 2022-12-08 18:23 UTC (History)
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Description Johannes Weberhofer 2012-10-12 14:03:12 UTC 
OSX 10.8 is handling LibreOffice's recently used docs next to the symbbol automatically. Therefore the Symbol's "file"->"recently used docs" should be removed, as it is a bit confusing to see two similar lists with different presentation side-by-side. See explaining screenshots in #53051
Comment 1 Roman Eisele 2012-10-12 14:29:33 UTC 
Confirmed, cf. discussion in bug 53051.

Direkt link to the screenshots:
* Old behaviour (Mac OS X 10.6): attachment 67678 [details].
* New behaviour (Mac OS X 10.8): attachment 67682 [details].

The latter shows that the sub-sub-menu “recently used documents”, while useful on Mac OS X 10.6, is no longer necessary, but an irritating duplication on Mac OS X >= 10.8. So LibreOffice should check the Mac OS X version on startup and, if it finds that the version is >= 10.8, just not add the sub-sub-menu “recently used documents”.
Comment 2 Don't use this account, use tml@iki.fi 2013-04-13 20:10:36 UTC 
Are we talking about the File:Recent Documents menu here, or that thing from Control-clicking on the Dock's LibreOffice icon?
Comment 3 Johannes Weberhofer 2013-04-23 13:45:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Are we talking about the File:Recent Documents menu here, or that thing from
> Control-clicking on the Dock's LibreOffice icon?

I proposed to remove LO's recent documents on the Application's icon on OSX.
Comment 4 Johannes Weberhofer 2017-05-03 03:59:14 UTC 
The Dock still displays both lists of recently used items in version 5.3.0.3.
Comment 5 Khaled Hosny 2022-09-29 08:19:14 UTC 
If we remove it from the dock icon, it gets removed from the file menu when start center is closed, do we want to do this?
Comment 6 Khaled Hosny 2022-09-29 08:27:19 UTC 
(In reply to خالد حسني from comment #5)
> If we remove it from the dock icon, it gets removed from the file menu when
> start center is closed, do we want to do this?

Scratch that, it can be removed from the dock menu only.
Comment 7 Commit Notification 2022-09-29 09:35:53 UTC 
Khaled Hosny committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/b2808ebfeb8654d349f6324fa2bc0f6e97af4e33

tdf#55922: Remove redundant macOS dock icon menu

It will be available in 7.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 8 Julien Nabet 2022-09-29 10:52:03 UTC 
Now it's fixed no need "needsDevEval" anymore.

I don't have a Mac but considering the too rare fixes for macOS specific bugs, thank you Khaled!
Comment 9 steve 2022-10-02 15:41:01 UTC 
Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 2a7fcaf582df3ada57ca519b50e29011973a1b6f
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 12.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: de-DE (en_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Dock Icon > Right-Click > File no longer shows "Recent Documents". Small changes like this are really helpful in improving the overall UX.

Verified, thanks a lot Khaled.