Disabling gnome’s recently used file list

disabling gnome’s recently-used file list, the better way
https://alexcabal.com/disabling-gnomes-recently-used-file-list-the-better-way

~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
nemo e.a gebruiken eigen lijsten echter , deze komen in recently-used.xbel.xyz123 files

The other xbel files are those made by a single application and not copied to recently-used.xbel because the directory could not be overwritten by a file. Crashes will also generate these extra files. I doubt other applications can read them (due to not having the filename) but a malicious program could simply look for all .xbel files. That’s one reason setting history days to zero (which keeps all of these files from logging anything) is the correct approach.

disable recently-used files.

Nowadays, it’s simple :
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.privacy remember-recent-files false