Bug: counter of recent documents in Preferences dialog

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Mittwoch, dem 23.08.2023 um 11:06 +0200 schrieb Dan:
> Could you actually reproduce the problem? I ask because I get the
> same problem after your patch.
> 
> Honestly, I am confused right now
>  1. I tried both versions (prior to and after your patch) in Debian
> 12.1 with MATE 1.26, and the problem did not appear.
>  2. Although your patch
> (https://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset?old_path=%2Flyxgit&old=06198fbe18
> 54c64cd62acdbd8bcaafdb2a3b3b9e&new_path=%2Flyxgit&new=06198fbe1854c64
> cd62acdbd8bcaafdb2a3b3b9e) does not fix the problem (in my Linuxmint
> 21.2  with Cinnamon at least), it really SHOULD: actually just
> setting the maximum property to 10 should suffice.
>  3. The maximum limit set in the QT ui file is ignored: actual
> maximum is always 50 (you can check by running the program and
> incrementing one by one). Therefore, this problem should not appear
> to begin with...
> 
> For contrast see Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Document
> Handling.
> The spin box for the number of minutes
> (https://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxgit/src/frontends/qt/ui/PrefDocH
> andlingUi.ui#L111): if you change the maximum from 300 to 100 or 9
> and compile, the spinbox shrinks!

I can't reproduce the problem, and in the UI settings, there is nothing
wrong I can see (the settings for last files and Snapshot minutes are
identical).

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Jürgen