Option to show 'Open Recent' documents at bottom of 'File' menu

[Checkmate]

I know it has become the 'industry standard' to have recent files in a sub-menu called 'Open Recent', but I've never been a fan.

In older design apps, the recent documents list was always at the base of the 'File' menu, avoiding a second step to access them.

 

Take Paint Shop Pro 7 for instance (which I still use daily) - this has the 'old' method and there is also a preference that allows you to choose how many files are shown.

The File menu only uses a third of my screen height so I'd love the option to use that wasted space.

[Checkmate]

I never got a reply to this 5 years back so I'm going to bump it!

Can we please have a simple option to show recent items on the main 'File' menu, at the bottom? Just a tick box and 'number of recent items to show' (like PSP screenshot).

It REALLY bugs me having to have 2 steps for this when there is a ton of space on most screen sizes for this.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Checkmate said:

I never got a reply to this 5 years back so I'm going to bump it!

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