Sorting of files and folders in Pantheon Files is inconsistent with sorting of files and folders in open/save dialog
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Files |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As per the instructions of Jeremy Wootten, I am also posting this bug in the Settings app:
The elementary OS open/save dialog (i.e. the one used in Scratch)
sorts files and folders together when sorted by name, while Pantheon
Files segregates files from folders.
E.g. if I had the following in a folder, they are sorted in this order
when I view them in the open/save dialog:
* a_file.txt
* a_folder/
* another_file.txt
Note that they're alphabetical, with the folder(s) mixed in with the
files. I'll call this the "non-segregated" method of sorting.
In Pantheon Files, if I open the same folder with the same files and
sub-folder inside it, it's sorted like this:
* a_folder/
* a_file.txt
* another_file.txt
Note that the folders are sorted first, and then the files come
afterward. I'll call this the "segregated" method of sorting.
The first way of sorting (non-segregated) is also the same way that
files and folders are sorted on a Mac. This is actually my preferred
way of sorting. There's lots of reasons why it's my preference, but I
can see why people might want folders separate too.
This is inconsistent and kind of annoying. I would love to have a
little toggle switch in the Settings app to go from one to the other,
so that everyone could be accommodated. Is there already a way to do
this by changing some setting in Pantheon Files?
affects: | switchboard → pantheon-files |
Changed in pantheon-files: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |