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Originally Posted by KevinH
One question:
if LibreOffice or Scrivener app is completely shutdown (not open and operating in the background) does this feature still work? If so, it is a operating system feature keeping track of what files you used recently not an application feature that keeps track of recent files it loaded.
That macOS feature would not be part of Qt cross-platform support as Qt does not use macOS os system calls to load files so tracking by the OS would not be done.
However if this open recent file feature only works once the program has been initially launched by the user when it shows up in the active part of the dock, then it is an application based feature and that we may be able to recreate.
Unless there is a hidden macOS way to register files an App opens after the fact so they are somehow available to the OS when the actual application is not running.
Either way, this feature would not be cross platform at all.
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Yes the same recent files are exposed by the Dock icon whether or not the application is open. If the application is open, the Dock icon stays in the same place but has a small dot beneath it - in this case, the bubble does not show a clickable 'Show Recents' item but still exposes the file names in the upper part.
I systematically quit creative applications because the files I use are inevitably up in Dropbox with all the risks of having a file open in two places at once.
Of all the applications I use, the only two which support this feature are LO and Scriv. LO holds a list of 19 recent files but MacOs only exposes 10. My Scrivener only has 4 recent files and they are all exposed by MacOs.
How can they do so?
EDIT: your additional info crossed with my post. Aren't we accustomed to being tracked all over these days?