Comment 6 for bug 1570227

Looks like a Ubuntu issue to me, since in that Gnome bug, upstream says recent files have been moved to beneath the "Open \/" button on gedit's taskbar:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742425#c3

And indeed they are there! However, on Ubuntu 16.04, gedit also has a "File" -> "Open Recent" menu, which is now non-functional (it's always empty).

It's a bit confusing since "File" -> "Open Recent" has always been the way to find recent files. It should either be removed or work.