[Bug 75980] "Clear Recent Documents" clears only the list in the gnome panel but not other application's lists as expected

[Bernat Tallaferro]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Using Edgy, after clicking on "Clear Recent Documents" under
Places>Recent Documents, a dialog with a big fat warning comes up:

<quote>
If you clear the Recent Documents list, you clear the following:

• All items from the Places → Recent Documents menu item.
• All items from the recent documents list in all applications.
</quote>

However, after confirming by pressing OK:

  1) All items from the Places → Recent Documents menu item are deleted as expected.
  2) Items from the recent documents list in all applications are *NOT* deleted.

The behaviour described in 2) can easily be checked, for example, in
Totem or Eye Of GNOME, where after clearing all documents from the Gnome
Panel, the lists of recently opened documents in both programs remain
untouched. You can also see that in ~/.recently-used, all recent
documents are still listed there.

I would have expected some consistency here, either:

a) Clear all recent document lists from all applications from the entry
in the GNOME Panel as the pop up dialog says, or

b) Clear only the recent document list from the panel, leave the list on
each application untouched, but add a *working* "Clear Recent Documents"
option to each application. At the time of writing, and as an example,
the two cited apps (Totem and EOG) lack such an option.

Thanks.

** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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"Clear Recent Documents" clears only the list in the gnome panel but not other application's lists as expected
https://launchpad.net/bugs/75980