.recently-used.xbel

It's been noted that GNOME goes through great lengths to resurrect .recently-used.xbel even if the user has tried to disable it by making it read-only or unwriteable. Where is this being done? Looking through the code finds the following suspects:

gnome-control-center-2.23.90/libslab/bookmark-agent.c

gnome-main-menu-0.9.11/main-menu/src/main-menu-ui.c

gtk+-2.14.2/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c