GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331276
showing the "Arrange Items"-item in list view too
Last modified: 2012-08-14 23:02:55 UTC
Hello! I suggest that the "Arrange Items"-item is not removed in list view, there is no good reason for doing that. Sure, showing this is somewhat redundant to sort by clicking on a lists headline - but this is not a pain. It is helpfull. For example, perhaps you decided to remove the date-column but now you want to sort by date. Using the "Arrange Items"-menu is faster than adding the column, scale the column to fit the window good... and perhaps removing it minutes later again. Other information: Adding the "Visible Columns" line in icon view makes sence then, just disable it and view it grey. Result would be a harmonized menu, easier to work with.
I still think, beside the context menu item sort by, the sort by item should be in the view menu from the menu bar.
I agree with this suggestion. There's no reason to remove the menu item. (Indeed, I think the HIG recommends that menus shouldn't be added and removed.) As the reporter indicates, there is *some* overlap of functionality between Arrange By and column headers. Overlap isn't necessariy bad though (and is less bad that a dynamic and potentially confusing interface), and the menu does provide some functionality not provided by list columns.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142495 ***