Re: Feature request: cycle through images by their mtime

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 20:10 -0500 schrieb Christian Jaeger:
> Hello
> 
Hi!

> Most of the time the pictures in a folder form a logic sequence when
> being sorted by their modification time; whereas their names usually
> at least start with a quasi-random part (sometimes they still end in a
> part from a camera which would contain a serial number which would be
> a useful sorting criterium, too, but since that's less often the case
> on my disk than having valid mtimes, that's not so important).
> 
> What do you think about that? Would there be an easy way to do it with
> a plugin? Or would it be easy to just code into the core? Would anyone
> do that or would it be up to me?

There's a bug where this would fit:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448979

It's about following nautilus' search order, but being able to set a
custom search order is practically a prerequisite for nautilus support.

I don't think it's doable as a plugin though as it likely requires
changes to internal objects, which are not (at least not easily) doable
through a plugin.

Regarding the activity of that bug, I don't know that somebody started
working on it. So if you want to give it a try, feel free to do it. :)

Regards,

Felix