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To continue your menu simplification of the Eclipse menu, I suggest to move the recently opened documents into a sub-menu "Recent documents" or something similar. This seems very common for other tools, like LibreOffice or IntelliJ. This would also allow us to add more entries to the recently used list.
Mickael, WDYT about the suggestion?
Created attachment 272281 [details] Screenshot
I'm OK if we at same time increase the default from 4 to 10 or 20. 4 is not useful at all if one works in a big project and has ~30 files open, therefore it was useless for me "by default".
I think it's a good idea, and Andrey's addition is good too. If we have a single entry, we could also move it to the top, as part of the "Open" group.
(In reply to Mickael Istria from comment #4) > If we have a > single entry, we could also move it to the top, as part of the "Open" group. +1
(In reply to Andrey Loskutov from comment #3) > I'm OK if we at same time increase the default from 4 to 10 or 20. +1
Created attachment 272597 [details] Example of the proposed UI Attached you see a sample implementation, where I decided to add the "Open Recent" menu to the top, with 10 elements displayed. Also in Atom and VSCode the open recent menu is similarly to the top of the file menu. What do you think?
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/117002
The proposed change adds a "Open Recent" menu to the top of the file menu. The new menu has 10 items by default. Here is what we could easily change: - name and position of the submenu - format and number of the items in the menu - add one last menu item to clear history
(In reply to Patrik Suzzi from comment #7) > What do you think? I love it. What about using "Recent documents..." instead of "Open Recent"? I think this more descriptive. > - add one last menu item to clear history Great idea, I suggest to solve this via a new bug.
Sorry, the dots were wrong. Suggestions to use: "Recent documents" instead of "Open Recent" WDYT?
Created attachment 272603 [details] Example of the current UI (In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #11) > Sorry, the dots were wrong. Suggestions to use: "Recent documents" instead > of "Open Recent" > > WDYT? +1 "Recent Docuemnts"
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/117002 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=6805ce54e934e74e81b448628da404c15d056af1
Very cool, thanks Patrick. Please also add to N&N.
Sure, let me first add a "Clear History" item with bug 530966
Do you really want to call that "Recent documents"? The term "document" is not used anywhere in the Eclipse workbench (there are zero matches in the workspace preferences and almost zero matches in Ctrl-3). Everywhere else we simply speak of "files". I'm aware that "Recent documents" sounds more sophisticated than "Recent files" and may have a better UX for users that don't know all the inner details of file systems or workspace abstraction, but nevertheless, it seems inconsistent to me.
Thanks Michael for this remark. I fully agree with it, we need some more consistency, and in the workspace, we talk about "Files" everywhere. Introducing a new term here (document) adds complexity to the software for users.
+1 for Recent Files
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/117099
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/117099 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.git/commit/?id=17aa5d2d975c6fd90ceb73862ea3658c7afc59b1
Created attachment 272635 [details] "Recent Files" menu The menu text is now changed to "Recent Files". Please, give your feedback also about bug 530966 - Add "Clear History" item to "Recent Files" menu
(In reply to Patrik Suzzi from comment #21) > Created attachment 272635 [details] > "Recent Files" menu > > The menu text is now changed to "Recent Files". > > Please, give your feedback also about bug 530966 - Add "Clear History" item > to "Recent Files" menu Looks good. I personally still would like to see more elements, let say 20. Now it has a dedicated menu, we have also more space, and why should we stop at 10?
Created attachment 272636 [details] Recent Files with 20 items (In reply to Andrey Loskutov from comment #22) > (In reply to Patrik Suzzi from comment #21) > > Looks good. I personally still would like to see more elements, let say 20. > Now it has a dedicated menu, we have also more space, and why should we stop > at 10? It makes sense to me, also the change is minimal.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/117102
Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/117102 was merged to [master]. Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=b0bf821bb8da5032d85de94076972ca3923d98d3
Removing target milestone for all bugs that are not major or above.
This was implemented by M5 IIRC.
