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[ not an issue ] Can the lightpad layout be used for showing many kinds of « recent activities » ?

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Since Jun 26, 2020.

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Hi,

Lightpad is a lovely looking app-menu. But DE don't really lack of app-menu.
Whereas they almost all lack of a one-place, easy to reach, access to many recent activities.

What do I mean here by activities ?
⋅ recently used files,
⋅ recently visited folders,
⋅ recently used app's ( ideally only those not already pinned into a dock or a panel )

Those recent/frequent things may be followed through tracker.

On the same layout I'd see something like
⋅ 2 first lines for files,
⋅ 3rd line for folders
⋅ last line for app's
⋅ first page for the most recent, last page for the oldest

User should have the ability to
⋅ set the default view of lightpad on app-menu or recent-activities
⋅ switch between those two types of view ( click on an icon or keyboard shortcut ),
⋅ set the span time for recent activities ( last x hours or days with a reasonable maximum, 23h/31d )
⋅ purge that recent-activity view,
⋅ set a blacklist of app's not to show in recent view if this can't be retrieved automatically from docks or panels-applets.

Well, that sounds like a huge amount of work. But it would give lightpad a set of very distinctive features none others offer ;-)

For reference : https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/desktop-overview-full-screen-launcher/3848

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