It's rather feature request than bug report. Please add ability to sort icons and folders also by creation date, not only by modification date.


Lets say, we are downloading files to ~/Downloads folder. After file finished downloading we probably want to do something with it, so we open Downloads folder and change sorting to 'sort by date'. 

Our downloaded  file is placed nicely on top - no need to look for it. It is archive (like most stuff on the internet), so we unpack it (via context menu) and surprisingly newly created folder haven't appeared on the top, but somewhere else.

Why? Because when we extract folder from package, its modification date don't change and is still pointing to moment when somebody created this archive. So if I have 500 archive files in ~/Downloads and I'll extract them all, I'll get 500 properly sorted archives and 500 randomly sorted folders. Sort by creation date works great.

For example, I've downloaded glipper source package, and I extracted it.

These are modification dates:
marb@greenhell:~/Pobrane> ls -alh |grep glipper
drwxrwxrwx  7 marb users 4,0K 2007-08-07  glipper-1.0
-rw-r--r--  1 marb users 357K 11-18 06:54 glipper-1.0.tar.bz2

and these are creation dates:
marb@greenhell:~/Pobrane> ls -alh --time=ctime |grep glipper
drwxrwxrwx  7 marb users 4,0K 11-18 06:54 glipper-1.0
-rw-r--r--  1 marb users 357K 11-18 06:54 glipper-1.0.tar.bz2