[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107755] store recently opened files list only in recently-used.xbel instead of registrymodifications.xcu too

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107755

--- Comment #11 from Hussam Al-Tayeb <me at hussam.eu.org> ---
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #10)
> Another argument against your proposition is that recently used does not
> mean the same thing at LibreOffice level and at OS level. At LibreOffice
> level it means this file has been opened by LibreOffice. At OS level it
> means this file has been read or open by some program. There is a lot of
> other softwares than LibreOffice that can change the last modified date of
> an office file. In other words the recently used files list of LibreOffice
> gives a more precise and useful information than the one from the OS.
> 
> So closing as WontFix.
> 
> Best regards. JBF

If I try to open a non-existent file using a native gtk+ application, it
automatically prunes the non-existent file from the recent files file. Both KDE
and Gnome benefit from this.
LibreOffice simply clutters its recent files storage and doesn't clean up after
itself by removing stale entries on failure to open them which also poses a
privacy issue because users of FDo compliant desktops (Gnome/KDE/etc...) are
expecting the opposite different behavior.
Do you understand what I was after here and my concern?

It's your software so you can go ahead and not fix it if you wish but it is
really not Ok at all to ignore privacy issues.

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