Re: Feature request: cycle through images by their mtime

[Christian Jaeger <chrjae gmail com>]

> 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 like the idea to reuse the sorting from the file manager. Although
eog should then also offer a way to open the folder in nautilus, as
sometimes eog may have been opened through other means and it would be
cumbersome to have to find the folder in nautilus manually.

Also I wonder a bit whether Thunar, which Debian's Gnome installation
somehow uses for opening folders from the Gnome menu (dunno why and
whether it can be changed, I'm too much of a commandline guy to
bother), stores the same sorting order, and if not, what to do about
this.

Do you have an easy hint how to start? The only Gnome app I've ever
tried to modify was xchat, and I wasn't very successful. I'll also
only have a bit of time on the side, like if I feel I get to complete
something within two hours (at least in the sense that I can close it
in my mind, meaning I can either pass the ball on, or have solved one
distinctive part of a problem) I try to tackle it, if I feel it will
take longer then I leave it aside (possibly indefinitely).

Christian.