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anoneemouse wrote:Is this still in active development? If so who is working on it, is there a bug we can follow to get updates on the progress of this?

gyges wrote:There is a video on Youtube showing the benefits of the so-called jump lists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szRwgbkKDZY

Basically, there are two of them:
1. 2-click-access to recently opened files (application specific).
2. 2-click-access to application specific favourites such as bookmarks (browser), folders and files (file manager), documents (office suite) or songs, videos and playlists (audio/video player).

Well, the true genius of the jump lists is, to my mind, the ability to pin documents to the applications they are opened with, thus providing 2-click-access to application specific favourites. This way instead of flooding your desktop or your start menu's favourites tab, you can just right-click an application icon and choose whatever you want to open, which seems to be a very intuitive way to open documents related to a specific application.

harogaston wrote:It is already included as part of the *'desktop files standar to have an [Action] section. I think Unity has a very decent implementation of this feature.

gyges wrote:There is a video on Youtube showing the benefits of the so-called jump lists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szRwgbkKDZY

Basically, there are two of them:
1. 2-click-access to recently opened files (application specific).
2. 2-click-access to application specific favourites such as bookmarks (browser), folders and files (file manager), documents (office suite) or songs, videos and playlists (audio/video player).

Well, the true genius of the jump lists is, to my mind, the ability to pin documents to the applications they are opened with, thus providing 2-click-access to application specific favourites. This way instead of flooding your desktop or your start menu's favourites tab, you can just right-click an application icon and choose whatever you want to open, which seems to be a very intuitive way to open documents related to a specific application.

Not only did we improve interacting with running applications, starting applications gets in your way less, too. Using Jump Lists you can launch an application and jump, hence the name, to a specific task right away. This feature is also present in the application launchers.

In our previous release we added Jump List Actions for quicker access to certain tasks within an application. This feature has been extended and those actions are also found through KRunner now.