https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466836
--- Comment #9 from Oded Arbel <o...@geek.co.il> --- (In reply to Andrew Shark from comment #2) > The Gwenview has also a "Date" sorting, but it is not clear what date. Date > of file creation in file system? Date from some field in EXIF? Some other > date? I could not recognize that by trying to sort by some date fields with > dolphin. This also need clarification. The sort by date option in Gwenview - and to the best of my understanding the only thing it can do when it wants to sort by the file manager's "date" sorting - is to sort by the file system's "modified date". Nothing else makes much sense - IMHO. This new commit - https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/commit/6545c47de9fdf830739737c52cbeaa2ce6a6411c - adds metadata fields for "created date" and "accessed date" - which, in my opinion, only exemplifies how much these fields are useless and serve only to confuse and do not add much information: * "accessed date" is always "now", because you just accessed the file to show it in gwenview (or thumbnail it or anything). "accessed date" is pretty much useless unless you have some non-interactive process that only scans directory listing. * "created date" is the time the file was physically created on the file system - which can be newer than "modified date" (for example when copying the file from another storage medium), or can be unset (some file systems don't have that feature). * "exif date" is optional and a lot of images do not have it - or even being able to store it, so sorting by that is going to be hit and miss (and that is a lot of miss). A good image importer might set the file info modified date according to the EXIF data, which is what I actually expect from all digital cameras and everything that generates EXIF date fields. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
