Re: sort by extension?

[Carlos Soriano Sanchez <csoriano redhat com>]

Hello,

I'm unclear what the problem is. Is that there are not enough mime-types for your liking so sorting by mime 
type mix them?
Then definitely they should be added as a standard. We don't really work with extensions (except for some 
specific cases).

This sort by extension sounds more like a workaround for not enough mime types.

Cheers,
Carlos Soriano

----- Original Message -----
| 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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