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On 06.07.2016 19:26, António Fernandes wrote:
>
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> 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
>>
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> 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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