Improve file order in Open Recent...

[Anastasia Baryshnikova]

USE CASE: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

Make the file order in "Open Recent..." consistent with the order in which they were opened in the past.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE AN ISSUE (OR TRIGGER A NEW FEATURE)

File > Open Recent...

CURRENT BEHAVIOR

It is not clear what determines the order of files in the list, it looks almost random.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Ideally the files would be sorted by their "last opened" time stamp (the most recently opened on top). A second (much less informative) option would be to order them alphabetically.

DEVELOPERS ONLY SECTION

SUGGESTED CHANGE (Pseudocode optional)

none

FILES AFFECTED (where the changes will be implemented) - developers only

unknown

LEVEL OF EFFORT - developers only

minor

COMMENTS

[mohammed faizaan]

I am currently working on this issue and I need some information. How many maximum number of recent opened files are we storing? is it 12? @hepcat72 @TreeView3Dev

[Anastasia Baryshnikova]

I think 10 files would be sufficient, but 12 is good too

[mohammed faizaan]

looks like we don't have any limit as of now. The file list grows on and on (just saw the code).

Also, if fixed, the corresponding fix will resolve #52

[Anastasia Baryshnikova]

Yeah, growing the list indefinitely is not a good idea.. Let's have a limit at 10

[Robert Leach]

Resolved in pull request #92.

[Robert Leach]

There's one minor point of issue #52 that is as yet unresolved beyond this fix, and that's the issue of the starting folder when no files have yet been opened by a new user or after a reset preferences action. The default folder in that case appears to still be the system root.

[Robert Leach]

Removing milestone: General interface (automated comment)