diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8728b139f..93488b13f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2006-04-11  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@cvs.gnome.org>
+
+	* gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c (gtk_recent_manager_init)
+	(gtk_recent_manager_new): Remove the unneeded setting of the
+	storage file inside the constructor. (Murray Cumming)
+	(build_recent_items_list): Reset the dirty bit when done rebuilding
+	the list from the storage file.
+
 2006-04-11  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkscale.c (gtk_scale_get_layout_offsets): Silence
diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 8728b139f..93488b13f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2006-04-11  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@cvs.gnome.org>
+
+	* gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c (gtk_recent_manager_init)
+	(gtk_recent_manager_new): Remove the unneeded setting of the
+	storage file inside the constructor. (Murray Cumming)
+	(build_recent_items_list): Reset the dirty bit when done rebuilding
+	the list from the storage file.
+
 2006-04-11  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkscale.c (gtk_scale_get_layout_offsets): Silence
diff --git a/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c b/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c
index 62b648251..93545da35 100644
--- a/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c
+++ b/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c
@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ gtk_recent_manager_init (GtkRecentManager *manager)
   priv->read_in_progress = FALSE;
 
   priv->screen = NULL;
+
+  build_recent_items_list (manager);
 }
 
 static void
@@ -482,14 +484,17 @@ gtk_recent_manager_set_filename (GtkRecentManager *manager,
 		  		      gtk_recent_manager_poll_timeout,
 				      manager);
 
-  build_recent_items_list (manager);
-  
+  /* mark us clean, so that we can re-read the list
+   * of recently used resources
+   */
   priv->is_dirty = FALSE;
+  build_recent_items_list (manager);
 }
 
 /* reads the recently used resources file and builds the items list.
  * we keep the items list inside the parser object, and build the
  * RecentInfo object only on user's demand to avoid useless replication.
+ * this function resets the dirty bit of the manager.
  */
 static void
 build_recent_items_list (GtkRecentManager *manager)
@@ -564,6 +569,7 @@ build_recent_items_list (GtkRecentManager *manager)
     }
 
   priv->read_in_progress = FALSE;
+  priv->is_dirty = FALSE;
 }
 
 
@@ -591,20 +597,7 @@ build_recent_items_list (GtkRecentManager *manager)
 GtkRecentManager *
 gtk_recent_manager_new (void)
 {
-  GtkRecentManager *retval;
-  gchar *filename;
-
-  filename = g_build_filename (g_get_home_dir (),
-                               GTK_RECENTLY_USED_FILE,
-			       NULL);
-  
-  retval = g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_RECENT_MANAGER,
-                         "filename", filename,
-			 NULL);
-  
-  g_free (filename);
-
-  return retval;
+  return g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_RECENT_MANAGER, NULL);
 }
 
 /**