Make "Open Recent" as sub-menu of menu "File" (+ add option "Clear history")

[ghost]

Actual behavior

Currently list of recently used files shown directly in the root of menu "File", where long path of file could spread this menu too much

Expected behavior

• All recently used files should be shown optionally only if user will open sub-menu "Open Recent".
• There should be option "Clear history" for clear this list.

Reference

sK1 2.0

AzPainter

[leozide]

I don't like the submenu idea, it adds 1 extra click to my workflow and breaks quickly pressing alt+f 1 to open a recent file. I'd prefer if the long file names were just elided.

[Lswbanban]

Well, the sub menu is quite a standard in many software. Moreover, if you add another settings letting choose the size of the recent files, you could have a very long list. This is the solution I adopted in my BlueBrick software. In the "Preference" window, there's an option to choose the length of the list (4 by default), and a button to clear the history.

[ghost]

@leozide , think, as cmpromise solutiion add option "Show list of Recent N files" (where N is drop-down list with values from 1 to 9) to "Preferences > General"

And always store list of recent 9 files in LeoCAD config file.

[ghost]

For quick fix this issue, please, add checkbox option "Hide list of recent files" in "Preferences > General" tab.

Think, this would be the best solution here.

[ghost]

For quick fix this issue, please, add checkbox option "Hide list of recent files" in "Preferences > General" tab.

@leozide, could you add this option?

[ghost]

I'd prefer if the long file names were just elided.

@leozide This is really issue which should be fixed.

I don't like the sub-menu idea, it adds 1 extra click

BTW, I still propose add "Open Recent" as sub-entry in "File" menu, because it is de-facto standard in desktop apps UI/UX already (GIMP, Inkscape, QCAD, FreeCAD & all other most popular FLOSS apps).

Otherwise add at least check box option"Preferences > Do not show recent files" to disable recent files list in "File" menu, for those AFOLs like me who has no any need to keep list of recent files in LeoCAD's UI.

[Lswbanban]

Yes, the "Open Recent" is what I was asking (which I called a sub menu of the File menu).

I agree it is kind of a standard in Desktop application, and I'm not convinced with the argument saying it would require one more click (yes it does, but no big deal, as it is not an operation you do hundreds of time when using the software)...