It does, just go here:



^{For some reason, all of my recent history in Gimp does not seem to show... I had to copy a few files to get enough}

Then you can view it in this dialogue - it shows more than 10:

For some reason I think it is limited so the keyboard short-cuts Ctrl+0-9 can be used.

Edit:

I knew that ~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc was the config file for GIMP - it had these lines:

# This is your personal gimprc file.  Any variable defined in this file takes

# precedence over the value defined in the system-wide gimprc:

# /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc

So I looked in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc and found:

# How many recently opened image filenames to keep on the File menu.  This is

# an integer value.

# 

# (last-opened-size 10)

So simply add this line to your ~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc file:

(last-opened-size 15)

To change the displayed history size to 15 for example.