GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 751649
Don't allow changing the sort order of search results
Last modified: 2017-08-29 07:46:09 UTC
There are a couple of reasons why changing the order of search results is problematic: 1. There's no way to return to the default sort order. 2. If you change the sort order and new results arrive, the list ends up being shuffled (which is hard to follow). It is also hard to identify new results. In list view we'd either have to hide the column headers, or make them insensitive. This issue is similar to bug 751336, and it would be good to have a coherent approach for both issues. Also, we should make sure that the solution for this bug is appropriate for the file chooser.
This change has now landed in the file chooser - it would be good if nautilus were consistent.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=4ff4349644c66976d1376cb4c68ec5fb459ad732
*** Bug 778484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have stopped using Nautilus due to this change (removing sort from search). My classic use case: 1. Search for item of interest. 2. Click date modified column to show most recently modified files first. I use this a lot, most of the time in fact, and I could not survive without it. Please consider restoring this regression.
(In reply to Daniel Harvey from comment #4) Hi Daniel, thanks or the feedback. Just a tip: did you know you can filter search by last modified or last used for any given time period? Not saying it's a replacement for sorting, but maybe it helps in your use case. This blog post has got some screenshots demonstrating how it works: https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/nautilus-3-20-and-looking-forward/ I hope it helps. It would be nice to also take the sort order into account when searching (bug 682902).