Feature request: List recent files too

[cipricus]

Cannot seem to find this rather common option in the otherwise so complete tool. It is present in other launchers.

Can this be enabled?

[cipricus]

Is that hard to add? I have no real competence but I could try to add it.

[Zren]

You'd need to use Recent Apps as a model. You need to enable RootModel { showRecentDocs: true }.

• https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applet-tiledmenu/blob/master/package/contents/ui/AppsModel.qml#L48

I parse the RootModel and all it's nested models and convert it to a ListModel and use a single ListView.

The RootModel is:

• RootModel
  • [0] = RecentApps
    • [0] Firefox
    • [1] Dolphin
  • [1] = All Apps
    • A
      • [0] Ark
      • [1] Audacity
  • [2] = Development
    • [...]
  • [3] = Education
  • [4] = Games
  • [...]
  • [9] = Power

I have the following properties in AppsModel that hardcode the numbers.

property int categoryStartIndex: 2 // Skip Recent Apps, All Apps
property int categoryEndIndex: rootModel.count - 1 // Skip Power

The RecentDocs should modify the model to be like the following:

• RootModel
  • [0] = RecentApps
    • [0] Firefox
    • [1] Dolphin
  • [1] = RecentDocs
    • [0] ?
    • [1] ?
  • [2] = All Apps
  • [3] = Development
  • [...]

Since I might reference the AllApps in many places with rootModel.modelForRow(1) you'll need to update those hardcoded indexes.

[Zren]

If you don't want Recent Apps, then you can probably easily set showRecentApps: false and set showRecentDocs: true as a simple workaround.

[cipricus]

Consider this a feature request please!

[cipricus]

I have succeeded but the result is surprisingly bad.

Edited plasma-applet-tiledmenu/package/contents/ui/AppsModel.qml- and there set RootModel { showRecentDocs: true }.

Also set showRecentApps to false.

Sadly that involves using some of the bad parts in plasma, a kio-slave or something that doesn't work properly. It shows me under "most used" 5 documents that I haven't opened in weeks instead of the last ones. I don't know how this works, I suppose it should show what dolphin shows at recentlyused:/files/?limit=10 or recentdocuments:/, or timeline:/today/, but it does not.

(What file/resource is showRecentDocs referring to?)

As a workaround I have added in Tiled Menu configuration > Sidebar shortcuts a recent_files_dolphin.desktop which was created with the line Exec=dolphin recentlyused:/files/?limit=15.