GTK Recent Chooser Menu callback not working

Question

I am currently very puzzled why something so simple fails so hard:

This is the source code for a very very simple recent chooser menu, but it fails.

My output is this:

Display name: recentchoosermenu.c
File URI: file:///home/wolf/Downloads/recentchoosermenu.c
Last application: gedit
Display name: recentchoosermenu.c
...

for every entry, it's always the first file.

I really have no idea why.

Thanks for any help,

Wolf

EDIT: Well this is embarassing, forgot to append the link: https://gist.github.com/3483363

Sorry.

Answer 1

Well, it seems that it's a bug in the global menu somewhere. When adding the Gtk.RecentChooserMenu to a Gtk.MenuToolButton or simply disabling the global menu, the problem doesn't occur.

To test, add these two lines to the very top of your code:

import os
os.environ['UBUNTU_MENUPROXY'] = '0'

Answer 2

In case anybody else has problems with *generating a recent chooser menu under ubuntu", here is how I solved it for now:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1169963/