[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #18767 (project mc): Thanks for the patch. I know about ls -U, but I think the audience of ls and mc might be a little bit different. For the ls command it might be considered as a filesystem debug option, or an option that can speed up scripts where the order isn't important and there are a lot of files in a directory, or ls is invoked many times. MC is rather a user-oriented, interactive application with much more overhead (e.g. always stat()s all the files) which implies that a little bit of extra overhead (sorting) is not a big issue, and it's definitely faster if mc sorts the filenames than if the user finds the requested file in an unsorted list. And I don't think anyone interested in the filesystem order would use mc, they'd use ls. Anyway, it's not an important issue at all, I was just interested in others' opinions. Of course I don't mind if this option remains there, even though I can't see use of it. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name
Update of bug #18767 (project mc): Status:None = Fixed Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #5: Well, the guy who posted the bug report below seemed to use the Unsorted mode: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=13549 Maybe, there are others too. As for myself - I never used it but still I don't mind it. However if you want to discuss the Unsorted mode, please, open a new bugreport. I am closing this one now. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #18767 (project mc): I don't know if the Unsorted view make sense but I know that the GNU 'ls' has a -U option which is supposed to print unsorted entries. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #18767 (project mc): Egmont, I've just verified that GNU ls does what you suggest in the situation described below. I'll apply a patch soon. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #18767 (project mc): I've commited a patch: http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewcvs/mc/mc/src/dir.c?sortby=dater2=1.67r1=1.66diff_format=u ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 Summary: Panel sort order: fallback to name Project: GNU Midnight Commander Submitted by: egmont Submitted on: Friday 01/12/2007 at 14:49 Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: current (CVS or snapshot) Operating System: GNU/Linux ___ Details: When sorting by a property that can be the same for different files (e.g. file size), files having the same value are sorted strangely. When you just change the sorting method from name to e.g. size, files of the same size remain sorted by name. If you change directory, or simply press ^R to reload the panel, these files will be sorted randomly (in fact I guess in file system order). So a simple ^R changes the order, even though nothing changed on the file system. This is quite strange, and IMHO not the expected behavior. IMHO sorting should always fallback to name, when their size/date/whatever is the same. PS. Does the Unsorted (file system order) option has any meaning in practice? I don't think so. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18767 ___ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
