Windows 10 Jump Lists?
 

In Windows 7, the Calibre ebook-viewer supported Windows "jump lists" (where you right-click on the active app in the task bar and a list (a little window) of recently-viewed files pops up). For example, even though I viewed Book A yesterday, and closed the app last night, if I open the app today the jump list "remembers" Book A. Windows 10 supports jump lists, and I'm pretty sure many apps have that feature. When you use this nice feature a lot, you get in the habit of expecting it.

But I can't seem to get Calibre or Calibre's ebook-viewer to support this convenient Windows capability in Windows 10.

I doubt this has anything to do with windows 10 -- its probably a side-effect of calibre moving to running file open dialogs in a separate process to avoid crashes caused by broken windows shell extensions many users have installed on their systems. Probably can be fixed by giving the process used for the file open dialogs the same app user id as the parent process. However, note that recently used items are available in the viewer already by right clicking the open button.

Incidentally, what did you use the jump list in the main calibre program for? Since it doesn't make much sense to re-add already added files to the library.

This should restore the jump lists for the viewer and the editor: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...81d3d0e5004dfe

Works great!
 

This works great, Kovid! I just downloaded version 2.79.1 and it works beautifully! Thanks so much!

Calibre is really a wonderful program!