On 24 Oct 2008, at 20:36, Bernhard Koenig wrote:


> you get a list of "recent files". In Emacs, even with the recentf
> extension, it seems impossible to add a "recentf-open-files" icon to
> the toolbar. Of course you can use keybindings, but some people like
> the mouse and the "recent files" in the menubar require more clicks.

It's perfectly possible.  I have it in Aquamacs, and it just took me a  
bit of Lisp code.  The full code is in aquamacs-tool-bar.el if you  
want to look it up.  Specifically, this is what does it:


   (tool-bar-add-item '("history" . "Recent") (lambda ()
			      (interactive)
			      (popup-menu (easy-menu-filter-return
					   (recentf-make-menu-items)
					   "Open Recent")))
		     'recent-files
		     :visible '(and (boundp 'recentf-mode) recentf-mode)
		     :help "Pop up the Recent Files menu")