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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 22:56:08 JST Børge

   In Android you can long press app icons to open the apps in different states. For example with an ebook reader you can directly open the latest file, in a notes app you can create a new note, in a podcast app you can tell it to immediately check for new episodes upon opening, in many apps you can go directly to a specific part of it, etc.

   #Gnome has some sort of support for this, but I've only seen LibreOffice using it? And not for recent documents. Should this feature be expanded on/used more?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:37:27 JST Børge

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     • Cassidy James Blaede

     @cassidy Hey, cool. Thank you, appreciate getting some insight from someone close to these things! Great to hear that there's work being done on this! :)

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     Cassidy James Blaede (cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:37:29 JST Cassidy James Blaede

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     @forteller these static entries are Desktop Actions, which are a FreeDesktop spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/extra-actions.html

     Dynamic actions aren't currently part of the spec, but are implemented on many desktops with the Unity LauncherEntry API. I hope that support will be added to GNOME either for this API or another one, specifically because that’s something we identified as missing from the Background portal as a replacement for status icons.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 06:40:27 JST Børge

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     • Cassidy James Blaede

     @cassidy In general I think getting to recent/often used files (and folders) is way too hard in #Gnome. I've created a couple of feature request issues about this. I'd love for you to have a look! :)

     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3333
     https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/165