Add main menu recent files

[Robert Helling]

On 14.02.2014, at 07:15, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> I"m not sure I'm in love with the way this is done (in the File Menu)
> and in a way it seems a bit confusing together with the default file,
> but I'll let others play with it and speak up.

On Mac OS there “File” menu very often contains an “Open Recent” item that opens a sub-menu listing recent files (and an option to clear that list). So I second the placing there. 

A bit of googling produced 

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/reference/applicationkit/classes/NSDocumentController_Class/Reference/Reference.html

They have a class that handles opening new or existing documents and maintains a list of recent documents. I have no idea if that is interfaced with Qt at all. But another thing it does is that there is a system wide “Recent Items” list that separately contains programs and documents and is located in the Apple menu.

Best
Robert

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