[tlug] System-wide MRU applet?

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

It would seem to me that one useful desktop function that KDE or Gnome 
might provide would be a system-wide "most recently used" file list. Of 
course, Emacs, OO, Abiword, Kedit, Gedit, etc., all have their own 
"recently opened" list. But it would also be useful to have a central 
list of files that were opened by various apps.

I guess it would not be that difficult to build something like this 
using cron and some shell scripts that find recent files and write 
symlinks to a "recent files" folder on the desktop.

But before I even consider this kind of task, I certainly don't want to 
reinvent the wheel if it's already been done. I can't turn up anything 
by Googling, and I've never seen an applet like this anywhere, but 
perhaps someone knows of, or has heard of such a thing?

Chuck

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