Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Toolbar

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From: "Peter Kjellerstedt" <peter.kjellerstedt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:48:16 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 08:25
> To: Ulf Lamping
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Toolbar
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:37:04PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > (I wanted to see what the GNOME style was for showing 
> > recently opened files on an application's File menu - 
> > it appears that they're listed as individual items at 
> > the bottom of the menu, which I seem to remember might 
> > also be the way it's done in Windows; our "Open Recent" 
> > is more Mac OS-like),
> 
> ...and KDE-like, although KDE 3.0 doesn't appear to have the 
> "clear list" item that we (and Mac OS X) have.  (Perhaps it's 
> been added in KDE 3.1 or 3.2.)
> 
> Do later versions of Windows (NT 5.x, i.e. W2K, WXP, WServer 
> 2003) have a "Recent Files" or "Open Recent" menu item in an 
> application's File menu?  Or do they still list the items 
> themselves on the File menu?  Does GNOME 2.x also do that?  
> (I.e., are GUIs converging on the "Open Recent" scheme?)

Office 2003 lists the individual items themselves near the
end of the File menu (only Exit is listed after them).

//Peter