[Bug 165070] Non-existent removed files remain shown in the open "Recent Documents" menu's list, without visual distinction

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165070

--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Jeff Fortin Tam from comment #7)
> ...

> It is, if you want the app to provide a smart humanized UX instead of
> cluttering the view with counterproductively stale results (instead of
> keeping those limited numbered slots dedicated to actual existing files) and
> expecting users to manually manage their filesystem in an office suite "in
> addition to managing it in their file manager". I shouldn't have to do the
> work in two places.
> 
> In other words, I'm trying to advocate for LibreOffice to present more
> relevant "current" results rather than stale non-actionable ones.
> 
> A concession/tradeoff I can make here is: if you really really really don't
> want to remove the non-existent-files results automatically, then they
> should at least be grayed out so that "offline/vanished" files are visually
> different and my eyes can ignore the grayed-out ones, to spot the actually
> relevant ones more easily... but that doesn't provide the advantage of being
> able to "free those spots" in the list for more actually-existing results.

By that you are suggesting major cross platform changes to the File -> Recent
Documents MRU document listing. In both its forms: the menu items listing of
what is held in the LO user profile (registrymodifications.xcu), and also of
the MRU's graphical representation via the SC backing window's Thumbnail views,
to be able to suppress them graphically in the UI.

Doing so for what is frankly a marginal use case.

So No! It would be more appropriate to simply apply the clearUnavailableFiles()
action by default, and deal with complaints over missing recents for the
missing deleted, or URLs of removable and remote FS mounts.

But my recommendation remains the less expensive and more likely easy-hack of
providing Option to expose the Clear Unavailable action on the File -> Recent
Documents menu to make it available from any module with no dependence on the
Start Center's UI. The User then having the option of clearing any deleted or
non-mounted URLs from the MRU history.

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