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Bug 668518 - Grouping By File Type
Grouping By File Type
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48525
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-23 17:10 UTC by G. Michael Carter
Modified: 2012-01-24 11:12 UTC
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Description G. Michael Carter 2012-01-23 17:10:05 UTC 
I have to admit I was playing with windows 7 when I saw this.

It has a "group by" in explorer that you can then set by file type.  It then groups items, before sorting, into a category.  In Win7 I found this useful as I could then separate the movies from music from tag files from image files, etc. for easy importing into iTunes.

I was wondering if we could implement something like this and even expand on it in nautilus?

I was thinking in addition to grouping have Video, and Picture views.   For video I was thinking have a view like XBMC where the image thumbnails are viewed on top/bottom and you can scroll through them having the tag information show.

The grouping at minimum would be helpful.   

ie

XBMC folders where you have m4v, .nfo, and .tbn

If it could group based on id tags in a folder of mp3, you could group by album or such thing too.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-01-24 11:12:24 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48525 ***