Your best chances at getting this fixed is filing this bug upstream. Ubuntu prefers not to diverge from upstream unleass really neccessary.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Low Status: Rejected => Confirmed -- Folders shown at bottom when using 'sort folders before files' pref with 'reversed order' option https://launchpad.net/bugs/49482 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs