Deleting History Entries

[Qqmike]

On the Desktop, you can see the documents in your History:
Application Launcher K > History. You can right-click on an entry and select delete Document or Delete All.
Question:
Is there a way to select only a subset of entries to delete?

Any time I right or left click on anything, it opens up that entry. No obvious way to select, say, entries 2 through 4 and entry 11 and entry 17 & 18 to delete all en masse at one time.

[Snowhog]

Click to highlight first item then scroll to last in the range and press Ctrl+click (or maybe Shift+click)? I'm guessing; not at home, so not at my computers to try myself.

[Qqmike]

I can't get that to work. I tried doing what one normally does to highlight a range, or use the Control key to highlight any files. But no-go.

[Snowhog]

Home now. Yup, doesn't look possible. Maybe with underlying tweaks, but that's beyond me.

[GreyGeek]

Mmmm.... I don't. have a History listing available from the App launcher.

[Snowhog]

Click the Menu button, then click on Places and you'll see History in the left pane.

[GreyGeek]

Thanks! Since I began using Plasma, way back when, I have never clicked on the "places" link and frankly never paid any attention or curiosity towards it.

[Fred47]

As GreyGreek mentions, you can delete the history places in the app menu and Dolphin as well. I'm sure it's buried in the hidden files somewhere, but using Sweeper you can delete those files and more, which I do on my monthly cleanup and backup.

[GreyGeek]

I'm innocent I tell you! I didn't write that? I'm being framed! Where's my lawyer?

[Qqmike]

On my 20.04 Desktop, I see History as follows:
Click the K button, a menu pops up on lower left. At the bottom of that menu is a row. In that row, from L to R, I see: Favorites, Applications, Computer, History, Leave.

Yes, there are "sweepers" and cleaners, and you can locate those "files behind the scenes" that contain the user data, like documents opened. But that is inconvenient.
Btw, on sweeping up ... there are data in many places, like Dolphin files, Konsole files played, your history in other places.

I was hoping there would be a quick way to make pick-and-choose deletions from the K > History spot. It doesn't hurt now and then to wipe your History from the K menu, ALL documents you have opened. Except when you are working on a project that uses the same related files (files that are hard to open on their own, stuck deep in various different folders etc.), and when you have everything right there you need. BUT ... those useful files are often overcome by crap-junk files you also opened. Would be nice, also, to move more important history files to the top of the list, leaving crap at the bottom.

[Fred47]

To make it even more confusing, every application keeps a list of recently open files.

[jglen490]

Qqmike That's true unless the user has setup their K menu as a series of cascading popups. In that case that bottom row is no longer there.

[Qqmike]

@jglen Ah, yes, I see. The flexibility of Kubuntu's desktop. I always stick with what came out of the box! It's good to know these things, though. Thanks.

[jglen490]

It is possible to "go back" to the Application Launcher with the Add Widget process.