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Ok, don't reinvent the wheel five times a day!

what I lack: I very much like lists of recent used things like
- recent opened files
- recent used programms
- recent opened folders

also most used
- most used files
- most opened programms
- ...folders

you get the idea. Its about statistics. And reuse. I know, I opened that file yesterday, I want to open it again, where is it... that sort of thing.

my solution:
At first I thought about a folder-view similar plasmoid that shows these things as links. Then I found out, that folder-view and quick-view can show any directory.

So: only thing we need is a little d-bus connected demon that listenes to the d-bus and logs recent files/programms/folders and keeps a little list or database (mysql) how often they are used. To be honest the list is so short that any database for that is mumpits.

From that knowledge you can write links to directories that then contain links to the recently opened/most opened/seldom opened files/programms/folders... and displayed using the folder-view or quick-view or any other directory viewing system (Dolphin or Konqueror if you're into that).

Does anyone know
a) if d-bus provides this information?
b) if yes, for all applications, also for java and other subsystems?
c) how to program a daemon like that (could be a small finger-exercise for a good d-bus programmer)

the new nepomuk powered timeline:/ protocol might help there.