sorting by time instead of filename

Greg Troxel <gdt-2FjktZCtrC/[email protected]> Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:29:12 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gqview.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I prefer photos sorted by time rather than name.  (This is because
sometimes I used two cameras at an event and want to review a merged
stream, and also because when wrapping over 10000 the filenames don't
sort right, e.g. dsc_9999.jpg to dsc_10001.jpg).

I have used SORT_DATE instead of SORT_NAME, but I don't see any UI to
set this on the fly.  I appreciate the niceness of the code - it took
only 5 minutes to read the code to figure this out and rebuild.

It would also be cool to be able to sort by exif image-taken date, but
that's harder and I'm not sure it's that massively useful; my workflow
keeps the mod date on the files.  But, when using gimp I get a new date,
so it would be nice.

--- src/view_file_icon.c.orig	2006-11-24 20:01:43.000000000 -0500
+++ src/view_file_icon.c
@@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ ViewFileIcon *vficon_new(const gchar *pa
 	vfi = g_new0(ViewFileIcon, 1);
 
 	vfi->path = NULL;
-	vfi->sort_method = SORT_NAME;
+	vfi->sort_method = SORT_TIME;
 	vfi->sort_ascend = TRUE;
 
 	vfi->selection = NULL;

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