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regarding nautilus: 'sort folders before files' does not work
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758811: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758811
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: nautilus
Version: 3.12.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I launched nautilus, and wanted the folders arranged before the files, which I
find makes it much easier to find folders (I think it used to be, and should
be, default). I launched 'preferences', and ticked the box labelled 'sort
folders before files'. Nothing changed, either straight away, or when I closed
preferences, went to a different folder, or even closed and reopened nautilus.
I then discovered that it forgets me ticking that box as soon as I have closed
preferences, so that if I reopen preferences, it is unticked. I haven't noticed
any other issues with different options. What should happen is behaviour
similar to the 'show hidden and backup files': when ticked, this preference is
instantly applied, and continues to be applied, even when you go to other
folders, or even quit the program and restart it. This means of course that
when you next go onto preferences the option should be a s you left it. I have
not always had this issue, I am not sure when it started happening, possibly
with gnome 3.12 - I reinstalled debian due to another issue at the time, and
noticed the problem straight away.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii desktop-file-utils 0.22-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.12.2-1
ii gvfs 1.20.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-7
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libexempi3 2.2.1-2
ii libexif12 0.6.21-1
ii libgail-3-0 3.12.2-1+b1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libglib2.0-data 2.40.0-3
ii libgnome-desktop-3-10 3.12.2-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.2-1+b1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.12.2-1
ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libselinux1 2.3-1
ii libtracker-sparql-1.0-0 1.0.2-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii nautilus-data 3.12.2-1
ii shared-mime-info 1.3-1
Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1
ii gnome-sushi 3.12.0-2
ii gvfs-backends 1.20.2-1
ii librsvg2-common 2.40.2-1
Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii brasero 3.10.0-1
ii eog 3.12.2-1
ii evince [pdf-viewer] 3.12.1-1
ii totem 3.12.1-1
ii tracker 1.0.2-1+b1
ii vlc [mp3-decoder] 2.1.4-1+b3
ii vlc-nox [mp3-decoder] 2.1.4-1+b3
ii xdg-user-dirs 0.15-1
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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