Hi Smirftsch, Did you know about the "Select items matching" feature? It's keyboard shortcut is 'Ctrl'+'S'. With it you can select all files with the same extension by typing *.png for instance.
I hope it helps you if/while no sort-by-extension option is implemented. António develo...@oldunreal.com <develo...@oldunreal.com> escreveu no dia terça, 5/07/2016 às 19:10: > 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 > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > nautilus-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list >
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