GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 744377
Sort by date option for list of installed programs
Last modified: 2018-01-24 16:55:34 UTC
It would be good to be able to sort installed programs by date installed as well as by name. Additionally, it would be good to display date installed along side the entries for installed programs.
> It would be good Why? Which problem is this proposed to solve? And how common is that problem? Does it justify adding an element to the UI and maintaining additional code?
Sorry, bad language, perhaps "I would like to" would be better. As for a problem, the only one I can think of is minor and probably not very common. It is more of a convenience feature. For instance, when a user installs a new program the program is listed at the top of the Installed programs list while it is installing. As soon as the program is installed it moves to its appropriate location in the list (which may be a fair way down). If the program remained at the top of the list the user could quickly select and launch it. In my opinion it justifies adding an element to the UI (it could be discrete, perhaps in the context menu), but not being familiar with how the list is currently implemented I'm not sure about the cost and ongoing maintenance. If I get a chance I might look into submitting a patch. But if you don't think this would be a worthwhile feature I'll move onto something else.
Created attachment 296941 [details] [review] Initial patch for described functionality This patch adds the described functionality. I'm not sure on the name for the sort-by-installation-date button, it's currently History. I'm also not sure about how reliable the result of gs_app_get_install_date is (is it just my platform/configuration or is this value sometimes strange?)
Allan, is this something we want?
(In reply to Richard Hughes from comment #4) > Allan, is this something we want? Sorry for the late reply. I can see the rationale - in some situations people will be looking for something they recently installed. You could question whether the extra complexity is worth it though.
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