Heres a cute hack, an easy way to make any file you open/change from the command line appear in your GTK file widget's "Recently Used" list, it uses python's pyinotify package available in apt, and pythons python-gtk2 package.

Something that's very handy, for example when you are editing something on the command line and attaching to an email and need to browse to the location, or when you've wget'ed a file and need to open it from a gnome application, the list goes on!

As promised, I've emailed KDE. I think the questions here-in are pretty decent and something everyone who uses open-source desktop should be concerned about.

I've been involved with Linux since around the 2.0.2x series kernels in around November 1996. Admittedly I was of pure hacker-mentality had no real idea of what it would take to run a business that depended on the desktop to perform it's duties, such as printing, saving, loading/retrieving, web-browsing, network file system connectivity. I was just happy to be able todo interesting stuff with my TCP stack and write my own software without having to fork-out big dollars for the experience.