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On 06.07.2016 19:26, António Fernandes
wrote:
Hello António,
that's indeed a nice workaround I didn't think of yet.
Thank you for that.
Glad to have helped :)
Still I hope some of the dev's is reading this and
the functionality is being considered, I really find it
somewhat odd that for whatever reasons this has not been
implemented so far.
I believe you didn't reply-to-all this message, so no
dev's are reading this. You need to add nautilus-list gnome org as
CC. I don't know if it was your intention or not so I didn't
CC the list on this reply.
Yuk! My fault. You are right, I didn't watch it while replying. This
one should be now for everyone again (sorry everybody for
confusion).
In my opinion, as a nautilus user and sporadic
non-programmer contributor, I think it is unlikely that a
sort-by-extension option willl be added to the UI, even if, programming-wise, it is easy to implement. Thanks to your exposition and
examples, I can now understand how the small differences
actually make a critical difference for your use case;
yet, I guess most people can't tell the difference. Making nautilus simpler for a
specific case should not make it more complex for the
common cases. So
creating a solution for this UX problem is probably more
complicated than the implementation of the sorting option
itself.
I think even under this consideration the gain of complexity seems
to be a manageable amount, after all it's only a single entry more
in like 3 different places, plus it can be a column not activated by
default so that only people have to deal with that feature who
really need it.
Also I'm pretty convinced it's not so rare that a Linux user has to
interact and deal with the windows world, no matter if you take now
document handling or maybe even gaming via wine. I really doubt that
I'm a rare exception with such a requirement and google is
reflecting that :)
Maybe the "Select Items Matching" feature was implemented
with your kind of usage already in mind and it was the
solution found at the time.
Then again, this is nothing more than my opinion and
speculation
Perhaps, still it's only a workaround in my eyes (and yes, this is
only my opinion and speculation).
So, thank you again ;)
~Smirftsch
On 05.07.2016 21:05, António Fernandes wrote:
Hi Smirftsch,
Did you know about the "Select items matching"
feature? It's keyboard shortcut is 'Ctrl'+'S'. With it
you can select all files with the same extension by
typing *.png for instance.
I hope it helps you if/while no sort-by-extension
option is implemented.
António
First
off, thank you all for developing all this. I know
what time and
effort this all costs and therefor I appreciate
any work put into such a
project like this.
That being said, I want to know if there is a way
to enable "sort by
extension" feature for Nautilus.
If there is already an option for this, I'm sorry
for my
elaborationsbelow , but after digging a while I'm
pretty convinced that
I would have found it already if existing.
Now, before starting to harass me with "we don't
need another make Linux
to Windows topic", which seems to be the only
obvious reason for me why
such a programming wise extremely simple feature
isn't implemented yet,
let me explain why and what for this makes sense:
In a perfect Linux world one may be happy with
mime type detection or
type, granted. Reality however is, if people like
me, who are forced to
work in both worlds, a missing feature like this
is extremely work flow
blocking and absolutely annoying. Different
filetypes are mixed because
they are assumed to be the same mime type. If need
to copy out files
from my Windows/Linux cross project, I have mix
ups between .ini, .map
files, between .dll and .so, .ilk and .bsc and and
and. I guess I could
compile a list with dozens of examples. I fully
agree that Linux is not
windows and I don't want the Desktop of my choice
to be "windows'ed",
but such a feature is really an essential addition
if one has the
requirement to work with windows files or who
needs to have interactions
between both OS.
Anyway, thanks for your time,
Smirftsch
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