When you have no Recent Documents it displays "No items found" which is great however it would be nice if the "Clear" was also removed. This was a request from a Debian user and is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462134
Agreed, that makes sense. I haven't had much free time to dedicate to the plugin lately, but I'll get to this request before the next release. Of course, patches are always welcome.
Implemented in trunk. Please test it.