Feature: default "sort by date" should be reverse-chronological

[homunq]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I set my default view to "sort by date". But this view defaults to sorting in forward chronological order. That means that folders open up with the oldest, most irrelevant files sorted to the top.

95% of "sort by date" use is to find the most recent files, not the oldest ones. The default sort by date order should be reverse-chronological, like a blog, not forward-chronological. If I want this sort order, I must set it every time; there is no way to have the view default to this order.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 1 12:18:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

confirmed, this was fixed on 2008 but it seems it reappeared upstream bug was https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533189 ; will open a new one.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626214

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in quantal