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Bug 533189 - nautilus view 'by modification date' is wrong order
nautilus view 'by modification date' is wrong order
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
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Reported: 2008-05-14 21:23 UTC by Jakub Steiner
Modified: 2010-11-13 14:05 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Jakub Steiner 2008-05-14 21:23:05 UTC 
By default nautilus sorts oldest entries up, so in 100% cases I have to go and toggle 'reverse order'

Other information:
Perhaps there is a use case for looking for the olders files in a directory but I think the majority of cases the feature here is looking for freshest stuff you just made someweher.
Comment 1 Nelson Benitez 2008-09-05 08:08:00 UTC 
I have the same opinion, 90% of times I order by modification time is to look for some recent file that I have created or modify..
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2008-09-06 11:10:52 UTC 
Thanks, fixed in trunk with a sweet signal introspection hack for finding out whether the user switched sort columns:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus?view=revision&revision=14593
Comment 3 Nelson Benitez 2008-09-06 12:33:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks, fixed in trunk with a sweet signal introspection hack for finding out
> whether the user switched sort columns:
> 
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus?view=revision&revision=14593
> 

 Thanks :)
Comment 4 Nelson Benitez 2008-10-15 10:45:39 UTC 
*** Bug 337699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2010-11-09 16:56:31 UTC 
Possibly regressed since this fix?
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-11-13 12:28:28 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Possibly regressed since this fix?

I don't think so, this bug is about list view, not icon view (if you are referring to that), so it's fine for this bug to stay closed.
If you'd like to see the same behaviour in icon view too, please open a new bug.
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2010-11-13 13:01:15 UTC 
I think jimmac meant icon view when he reported it.  At least that's what he told me the other day when he reproduced it for me.
Comment 8 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-11-13 14:05:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> I think jimmac meant icon view when he reported it.  At least that's what he
> told me the other day when he reproduced it for me.

Ok, this is bug 626214 then.