Bug#171417: openoffice.org: Please increase default recent files
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:43, Chris Halls wrote:
>
> > The default "recent files" is limited to 4 - I seem to go through this
> > number just reading my e-mail on a bad day. I would like to see this
> > set larger by default.
>
> I agree that it is a fairly small number, although I don't know whether 24
> is a good idea for people with small screens.
Sure. I think possibly 9 would be a good number for general use,
although I would _like_ 24, for myself (proud owner of a 1600x1200
laptop :-)
> If you change the user .xml files, not the global ones, the changes will
> stick. Did you try that?
Where would I do that? How would I do that?
find . -type f | xargs grep PickListSize
doesn't appear to find anything. It would be nice if there was a UI
twiddle to do this, but I guess that's an upstream issue.
> I guess that making the global .xml files modifiable means marking the
> complete tree as conffiles. What do people think about that? I'm a little
> wary because we might end up getting wierd behaviour between upstream
> version upgrades, and I don't know if we are ready to support that sort of
> thing yet.
Yes, probably that is a bit doubtful.
> > Here is a patch to increase the "recent files" to 24:
>
> Well, I'm afraid marking the bug as 'patch' is cheating - your patch can't
> be applied to the source since these files are generated :( Thanks, though,
:-)
Downloading the source package to find that out is, I'm afraid, just a
leeetle bit daunting!
Thanks,
Andrew.
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