How to prevent Videos to show history

[ilAli]

i am using Linux mint 17.1 XFCE. there is a media player called Videos (forked from Totem, I think) with 3.10.1 as version number.
any time i play a video or sound using Videos, it saves their name and show the list as history in it's menu. So:
How can i clear this history?
How can i prevent Videos to save and then show history?

and the main question:
Isn't it better to add an option (a button or key or menu option) to Videos in order to clear history? i think mint developers can think about it.

[kyphi]

The Mint developers have already thought about it and have provided a privacy setting:

Go to System Settings, Preferences, Privacy and remove the tick next to "Remember recently accessed files".

I assume that applies to Xfce as well as Cinnamon.

Videos = Totem.

[Buzzsaw]

Totem is a GNOME 3-related project, so I expect there are options for it in 'dconf-editor'.

[ilAli]

Go to System Settings, Preferences, Privacy and remove the tick next to "Remember recently accessed files".

there is not such a path in linux mint 17.1 XFCE.

[Buzzsaw]

I don't think it's possible to delete Totem's history alone; and Xfce has no history configuration option. However, entering the command rm .local/share/recently-used.xbel in the terminal will delete most GUI history.

A better solution would be to use VLC, which has a menu entry to delete its history. VLC's history isn't kept in .local/share/recently-used.xbel.

[ilAli]

i found the solution:
there is a icon in taskbar called Places, when click on it, it shows list of folders and at the end there is "Recent Documents" option which shows history and have the option to clear recent documents such as videos history.