[X Newbies] Can you configure "recent items" menu?

[Diego Terneus]

On Sunday, Dec 29, 2002, at 21:19 US/Pacific, Gregory Cortelyou wrote:

> I would like to be able to use the recent items option in the apple 
> menu to open documents that I work on all the time. I have noticed 
> that the only documents listed in that category are from the OS X 
> "native" applications. Documents created in Word or Appleworks are not 
> listed. You can configure the number of documents listed but I can't 
> find any place that lets you control what type of documents are 
> listed. Applications recently used seems to be able to list all 
> applications. Anybody know anything about this?
> Greg

The way I get around this is by using FruitMenu and configuring it's 
Apple menu to include a folder where I keep all my active/working 
documents. I haven't used SO X's Apple menu since I discovered 
FruitMenu. (through Versiontracker)
Diego Terneus
http://stanford.edu/~diegot/index.html