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Bug 626214 - default "sort by date" should be reverse-chronological
default "sort by date" should be reverse-chronological
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: Icon View
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-06 15:32 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2012-08-20 20:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2010-08-06 15:32:21 UTC 
this bug was filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/612307


"I set my default view to "sort by date". But this view defaults to sorting in forward chronological order. That means that folders open up with the oldest, most irrelevant files sorted to the top.

95% of "sort by date" use is to find the most recent files, not the oldest ones. The default sort by date order should be reverse-chronological, like a blog, not forward-chronological. If I want this sort order, I must set it every time; there is no way to have the view default to this order."

This is related to bug 533189 but that was fixed on 2008. 

Thanks all,
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-11-13 12:38:35 UTC 
Yeah, this still applies to Icon View. We should probably be consistent.
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2012-08-20 20:32:22 UTC 
Fixed in:
commit 988e33f3af5ec2b9fe6fd85259dcf916700536b3
Author: William Jon McCann <jmccann@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 20 17:05:33 2012 -0400

    Make time columns default to descending sort order