I would like to not have my recent documents displayed in the main KDE menu. I know how to clear them but I would prefer to be able to stop them all together if at all possible. Does some one out there know of a way to remove the list entirely?
Right click over the SUSE menu icon and pick “Application Launcher Menu Settings” were you can select what is displayed in your menu.
Thank You,
Thanks 
Unfortunately that doesn’t have anything about Recent Documents. I can change the icon in General and have Keyboard Shortcuts, and Share widgets.
Normally I would expect this would be documented in the KDE help module but alas the body of the section is missing. hmmm.
Ok, a little experimenting and I have managed to clear them.
- Select recent documents
- Right click anywhere in the recent docs area
- Select Clear Recent Documents
Hope this helps
I love to hear of success even if the user has to up with the fix. Thanks for sharing the procedure with us.
Thank You,
Sorry, but IMHO the OP clearly stated in his first post:
I know how to clear them but I would prefer to be able to stop them all together
Thus the above advice is of no use to the OP.
That only applies to the classic menu style.
What you could do to prevent Recent Documents to be filled, is to remove write (or even read) permissions from the folder ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments.
Either with the file manager, navigate to ~/.kde4/share/apps/ (you have to enable “Show hidden files” for that), right-click on the RecentDocuments folder, select “Properties”, switch to the “Permissions” tab, and set everything to “Can view content” or even “Forbidden”.
Or in Konsole:
chmod a-w ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments
or even
chmod a-rwx ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments
Whoops, not enough coffee to read properly yet. 
Thanks much that did the trick it would seem. I made the permissions for owner forbidden and opened up a doc and then went and check and it showed nothing in there
Thanks for all the help guys you rock 
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:56:01 GMT, Argedion
<Argedion@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>wolfi323;2599727 Wrote:
>> That only applies to the classic menu style.
>>
>> What you could do to prevent Recent Documents to be filled, is to remove
>> write (or even read) permissions from the folder
>> ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments.
>> Either with the file manager, navigate to ~/.kde4/share/apps/ (you have
>> to enable “Show hidden files” for that), right-click on the
>> RecentDocuments folder, select “Properties”, switch to the “Permissions”
>> tab, and set everything to “Can view content” or even “Forbidden”.
>> Or in Konsole:
>> >
>Code:
>--------------------
> > > chmod a-w ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments
>--------------------
>> >
>> or even
>> >
>Code:
>--------------------
> > > chmod a-rwx ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments
>--------------------
>> >
>
>
>Thanks much that did the trick it would seem. I made the permissions for
>owner forbidden and opened up a doc and then went and check and it
>showed nothing in there
>
>
>Thanks for all the help guys you rock
Though it works, it seems like a brute force solution. In KDE3 there is a
setting for the number of recent documents that could be set to zero. I
don’t use KDE4 so i don’t know if that is still part of the settings.
?-)
No it is not.
wolfi323 wrote:
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> josephkk;2601608 Wrote:
>> Though it works, it seems like a brute force solution. In KDE3 there is
>> a
>> setting for the number of recent documents that could be set to zero. I
>> don’t use KDE4 so i don’t know if that is still part of the settings.
>>
>> ?-)
> No it is not.
>
>
I don’t know if this will work, but I noticed a setting that may.
Navigate to ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments/
Right click on that folder and select properties, information, and
configure.
If you then untick all the listed items you may have no recent docs
HTH
No, it’s not information in properties, but permissions.
And where’s the difference to what I suggested?
That is the exact same brute force solution.
Again, there is no setting for this.