On 06.07.2016 19:26, António Fernandes wrote:
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<develo...@oldunreal.com <mailto:develo...@oldunreal.com>> escreveu no
dia quarta, 6/07/2016 às 12:11:
Hello António,
that's indeed a nice workaround I didn't think of yet. Thank you
for that.
Glad to have helped :)
Still I hope some of the dev's is reading this and the
functionality is being considered, I really find it somewhat odd
that for whatever reasons this has not been implemented so far.
I believe you didn't reply-to-all this message, so no dev's are
reading this. You need to add nautilus-list@gnome.org
<mailto:nautilus-list@gnome.org> as CC. I don't know if it was your
intention or not so I didn't CC the list on this reply.
Yuk! My fault. You are right, I didn't watch it while replying. This one
should be now for everyone again (sorry everybody for confusion).
In my opinion, as a nautilus user and sporadic non-programmer
contributor, I think it is unlikely that a sort-by-extension option
willl be added to the UI, even if, programming-wise, it is easy to
implement.Thanks to your exposition and examples, I can now understand
how the small differences actually make a critical difference for your
use case; yet, I guess most people can't tell the difference. Making
nautilus simpler for a specific case should not make it more complex
for the common cases. So creating a solution for this UX problem is
probably more complicated than the implementation of the sorting
option itself.
I think even under this consideration the gain of complexity seems to be
a manageable amount, after all it's only a single entry more in like 3
different places, plus it can be a column not activated by default so
that only people have to deal with that feature who really need it.
Also I'm pretty convinced it's not so rare that a Linux user has to
interact and deal with the windows world, no matter if you take now
document handling or maybe even gaming via wine. I really doubt that I'm
a rare exception with such a requirement and google is reflecting that :)
Maybe the "Select Items Matching" feature was implemented with your
kind of usage already in mind and it was the solution found at the time.
Then again, this is nothing more than my opinion and speculation
.
Perhaps, still it's only a workaround in my eyes (and yes, this is only
my opinion and speculation).
So, thank you again ;)
~Smirftsch
On 05.07.2016 21:05, António Fernandes wrote:
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
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<develo...@oldunreal.com <mailto: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
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