nautilus should sort by extensions

[Trouilliez vincent]

In Warty I have a folder with tons of still pics, bmp and jpg, and a few WMV
video files.
Normally when I sort them by type, all the video files are put the bottom, which
make sit easy to find them.

Now with Hoary, it doesn't work anymore, the WMV files are in the middle of all
the bmp and jpg files, it's a pain to find them :o(

I think Warty used the file extension to sort the files, hence "WMV" came after
"bmp" then "jpg".
But it looks like Hoary uses the "MIME" (?) description.

"bmp" is called "Windows BMP image" and "WMV" is called "Microsfot WMV video".
"Windows" comes after "Microsoft", and here you go, the video files end up lost
in the middle of all the other image types :-/
Is there a way to change the sorting mechanism/method back to what it used to be
? Or is it configurable somewhere ?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168663: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168663

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

basically you want a sort by extension, I've opened a wishlist upstream about
this but I'm not sure that's useful to add such options:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168663

[Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet)]

> basically you want a sort by extension, I've opened a wishlist upstream about
this

Thanks..

> but I'm not sure that's useful to add such options

Well, I think there are even much more useful options that have been taken out
of Gnome, so I am not too sure how to trust the people who make decisions at
Gnome. Like for the calendar applet that now lacks week numbers in 2.10. They
are disabaled by default. A calendar with no week numbers is of zero use for any
corporate desktop ! Does that mean Gnome doesn't want to reach this market ? Of
course they do, so who the hell deciced to hide the week numbers by default,
with no way to get them back but toggle an obscure key in Gconf ?
Well, that was just an example... ;o)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> Well, I think there are even much more useful options that have been taken out
> of Gnome, so I am not too sure how to trust the people who make decisions at
> Gnome.

you should stop with such trolls, that's totally wrong. In this case that's a
new option instead of a static choice.

> Like for the calendar applet that now lacks week numbers in 2.10.

That's an option now ...

> Well, that was just an example... ;o)

This has been changed because some people with an opinion differente of yours
have filled some bugs:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147565

This "bug" is not one neither. The option is "sort by type", not "by extension",
you are asking for a new feature. And I'm sure than some people have some files
sorted in a best way with the type rather than the extension.

You should try to think about different usecase instead of complaining every
time than you open a bug. A new option is not wrong because you don't like it on
one of your folder or because you don't know how to change it.

[Ace (ace.....)]

Nautilus 2.32.2.1

All those years ago, Vincent was absolutely correct.
Over 6 years later...............6 years, and still the same horrendous problem exists.

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not sure that's useful to add such options.

Yes it is...... my goodness....... Yes it is!

It's not just useful ....... It's an utter necessity.

I read with horror, the response made by Seb Bacher:

"I'm sure that some people have some files sorted in a best way with the type rather than the extension."

I just don't see how this statement can be true.
One can't rename files, or change extensions at whim, so how can anybody have them sorted in the best way, by using type??

It just doesn't work:

/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/70603113.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/A9OL4VF8.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ADDR64C2.PM!
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ADDR64C2.PMR
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ALLADDS.PM!
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ALLADDS.PMR
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/B1EBOV2P.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/B1R3F2HD.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BEGJ8868.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BUSINESS.PM!
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BUSINESS.PMR
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/DESKTOP.PM0
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/EOWM12D2.PMO

In the above example, the directory contains many hundreds of files, and it is mission critical that I have them grouped together, for staged pasting into a new folder.
It was a nightmare.... here's what i had to do:

/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN
/home/mark/Temp data/CNM
/home/mark/Temp data/pmi
/home/mark/Temp data/PMM
/home/mark/Temp data/singles

I created dirs named by extension, then trolled thru admin, cutting and pasting files into appropriate dirs - just to sort them!

In 2011 i'm having to figure out some micky mouse way of sorting files, when in windows explorer, it would have been ***** a single mouse click *****.

In fact, to be fair.... what i should have done..... was: reboot to win7, and do the whole job using win explorer.

[Ace (ace.....)]

Oh yes, I should also have stated that I did try searching for *.ext but the search failed to function.

Perhaps linux uses a different symbol to indicate "all".

[Alexandra Tilbrook (alexatilbrook)]

2017 and this STILL exists???

I have a bunch of files for my TRS80 Color Computer (For DriveWire) and I need to sort out the CAS, DSK and ROM Files. Those are the extensions.

Here's a small sample and I have "Sort by type" selected...

Wildcatting (1981)(Tandy)[26-3067].rom
Zaxxon (1983)(Tandy)[26-3062].cas
Zaxxon (1983)(Tandy)[26-3062].rom
Zone Runner (1987)(Tandy)[26-3286].dsk

I tried the steps to include "MIME Type" but those are sorted as "application/octet-stream". I just need to have .cas files with .cas files, ditto for .rom files and .dsk files. How is this not useful? I'm in agreement with #4. I swear the GNOME people are trying to dumb down Linux users.

[Goury (madoo)]

2021 and we are still fed shit