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The History Dialog displays the list of the documents you have opened in previous sessions. It is more complete than the list you get with the “Open Recent” command.
The “History” dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section Section 2.3, “Dialogs and Docking” for help on manipulating it.
You can access it:
From the main menu: → → .
From the Tab menu in any dockable dialog by clicking on 
and selecting → .
From the main menu: → → .
The scroll bar allows you to browse all images you have opened before.
In the Tab menu for the “Document History” dialog, you can choose between and . In Grid mode, the documents are laid out in a rectangular array. In List mode, they are lined up vertically, with each row showing a thumbnail of the contents of the image, its name, and its pixel dimensions.
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Use the Open the selected entry
button or command of the dialog's context menu, to open the image you have selected. With the Shift key pressed, it raises an image hidden behind others. With the Ctrl key pressed, it opens the Open Image dialog.
Use the Remove the selected entry
button or command of the dialog's context menu, to remove an image from the History dialog. The image is removed from the recently open images list also. But the image itself is not deleted.
Use the Clear the entire file history
button or command of the dialog's context menu, to remove all the files from the history.
Use the Recreate Preview
button or command of the dialog's context menu, to update preview in case of change. With Shift key pressed, it acts on all previews. With Ctrl key pressed, previews that correspond to files that can't be found out, are deleted.
You can get the document history context menu by right clicking on a file in the document history dialog, or by opening the submenu in the triangle dock tab menu. Several of the operations are also available through buttons at the bottom of the dialog. Those operations are documented above. The remaining ones are listed below.
