## Recent File Storage Specification

Many applications choose to have a menu containing a list of recently used files, which can be used as an alternative to opening a file selector. GNOME, and KDE applications have done this for quite some time, and probably others have as well. This specification aims to do the following things: 

 * Provide a standard mechanism for storing a list of recently used files (really, URIs) 
 * Allow for notification of changes in the list 

### Mailinglist

Discussion of this specification should occur on [[xdg|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg]].
 
### CVS

The [[CVS|GettingInvolved#CVS]] module for this spec is [[recent-file-spec|http://cvs.freedesktop.org/recent-files/recent-file-spec/]]. 


### Spec

 * Version 0.2 - [[html (one page)|http://standards.freedesktop.org/recent-file-spec/recent-file-spec-0.2.html]] - [[html (multiple pages)|http://standards.freedesktop.org/recent-file-spec/0.2/]] - [[xml|http://standards.freedesktop.org/recent-file-spec/recent-file-spec-0.2.xml]]