Thank you for your bug report, indeed that's suboptimal but that's the
way the filesystem is working and not specific to nautilus. Having to
get that info in the UI would require to browse all the dir content
which would be very slow. Closing as wontfix but feel free to report it
upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues if you want
to discuss improvements/ideas with them
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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Title:
Sorting of folders by modification date is meaningless
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Steps to reproduce
- open a folder that contains subfolders (and optionally files), of which at
least some contains in turn at least a couple of levels of subfolders with
files inside it
- select list view
- click on the "modified" column to sort items by modification date
Expected:
* both the files and folders should be ordered by modification date. For
folders, modification date should be the date of last modification of the item
most recently modified inside the folder, RECURSIVELY. That is, for example,
the folder containing the file most recently modified, at ANY level of its
subtree, should be considered the most recently modified folder
Observed:
* Files stright inside the current folder are ordered correctly, but folders
are ordered in a seemingly random manner. Often, the folder that you'd expect
to be on the top of the list (in reverse chronological order) is pretty close,
but many times it's not, and the overall sorting certainly doesn't satisfy the
expected criteria.
I suspect the modification dates of items inside the folders are taken
into account but not recursively. If that is the case, it's a
meaningless and hence wrong criteria.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-48.80-generic 3.13.11-ckt16
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 19 18:22:28 2015
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size',
'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions',
'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (554 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-24 (329 days ago)
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