Bugzilla – Bug 297530
g-m-m: Add properties to the context menu for ease of configuration
Last modified: 2012-05-15 16:59:23 UTC
with slab 0.9.8 ( gnome-main-menu-0.9.8-49 ) the listing of recent applications seems to be restricted to two entries. The menu editor does not seem to provide configuration for this item. cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 10.3 (i586) Alpha7 VERSION = 10.3 uname -r 2.6.22.1-10-default
You can change this via the gconf key /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/file-area/max_total_items It would be nice to expose this in the gui somehow (or doc this key)
Thank you, Scott, for pointing this out. Searching for the place to change took me quite a while, until I realized that the "gconf-editor 2.20.0" is now called "GNOME Configuration Editor" in the menu. Also the entry in question is "min_recent_items" rather than "max_total_items" which defaults to 8.
Work is in progress to expose settings via the GUI. See this email; http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2007-11/msg00039.html
This was solved so closing.
It's back in 11.0 beta2
Created attachment 214255 [details] Screenshot Seems to work here.
Magnus: create a new user, login and have a look at gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/file-area/min_recent_items For me that value comes preset to 2 ( root and every added user ) when I network install clean & update from factory ( update currently broken )
Yes, the default is 2 and it has not changed. I'm not sure I understand why this bug is re-opened?
How come your screenshot shows 4 then ? It's reopened as limiting it to 2 entries seems a little tight. I use 8 for instance there might be other desired values for other people. The easiest solution would be a context menu from computer ( aka main-menu ).
I changed it to four as your original summary said "limited to two entries". I'm changing the summary, severity and moving to 11.1 as it's too late for new features in 11.0.
Sounds good to me :-)
2 is way to small to be effective - a recently used app way too quickly gets swapped out of the list. We had to set this so low though because we (main-menu) are used on small screen devices and for that special case the menu already struggles to fit. What I would really like to see happen (if I ever get time) is this changed to at startup check if the user has explicitly set the value. If not then based on available screen real estate (say >= 1024*768) default to 6. This is what I use (8 favorites and 6 recents) and it works really well.
Hey Scott, have you got some time ??
Sorry for the spam. I'm mass-closing gnome-main-menu/slab bugs: gnome-main-menu has gone unmaintained upstream because it's not usable in GNOME 3, and is not shipped since 12.1. I don't expect any maintenance updates for it in 11.4 either.