[Thunar-dev] sort files by extension in Thunar?

[Michal Kaut]

Hello,

is it possible to sort files by extension in Thunar? I know it can sort
by "Type", but this is definitely not what I want, because:
- some extensions have the same type, for example .txt, .out and .dat
are all of type "plain text document" - so they get all mixed up
- it is difficult to find files; for example for the .dat files, I have
to remember that they are called "plain text" and therefore sorted under
"p" .. not to mention .mod files, where I have my optimization models,
which are called "Amiga Sountracker audio" and hence sorted under "A"..)

(The optimal thing, as far as I can tell, would be to have custom
columns in Thunar. In this way, one could have (and be able to sort by)
not only extension, but also ID3 tags for music and EXIF data for
pictures .. but that is probably too much to ask for?)


Thanks,
Michal

[Mikhail Batser]

Hello!
That's another one case which demonstrate us all the stupidity of Linux
developers :)
I had been a Linux user for several years, and I got completely sick of
the system.

Post by Michal Kaut
Hello,
is it possible to sort files by extension in Thunar? I know it can sort
- some extensions have the same type, for example .txt, .out and .dat
are all of type "plain text document" - so they get all mixed up
- it is difficult to find files; for example for the .dat files, I have
to remember that they are called "plain text" and therefore sorted under
"p" .. not to mention .mod files, where I have my optimization models,
which are called "Amiga Sountracker audio" and hence sorted under "A"..)
(The optimal thing, as far as I can tell, would be to have custom
columns in Thunar. In this way, one could have (and be able to sort by)
not only extension, but also ID3 tags for music and EXIF data for
pictures .. but that is probably too much to ask for?)
Thanks,
Michal
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[Nick Schermer]

Post by Mikhail Batser
Hello!
That's another one case which demonstrate us all the stupidity of Linux
developers :)
I had been a Linux user for several years, and I got completely sick of the
system.

And we get sick of people who blame the application afterwards,
instead of helping to solve the issue; which is what open source is
all about!

Greetings from your stupid Xfce developer,
Nick

[Mikhail Batser]

I'm very sorry for my offensive words. But they were not meant to be
sent to the mailing list, but only to Michal Kaut who asked about
sorting files.

The problem is that I use the famous Mozilla Thunderbird, and although
it has two separate buttons for "Reply" and "Reply to mailing list",
they both reply to the mailing list... which I've just learnt by this
case. Excellent! :-(

So I am apologising.

Post by Nick Schermer

Post by Mikhail Batser
Hello!
That's another one case which demonstrate us all the stupidity of Linux
developers :)
I had been a Linux user for several years, and I got completely sick of the
system.

And we get sick of people who blame the application afterwards,
instead of helping to solve the issue; which is what open source is
all about!
Greetings from your stupid Xfce developer,
Nick
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[Benedikt Meurer]

I'm very sorry for my offensive words. But they were not meant to be sent to the mailing list, but only to Michal Kaut who asked about sorting files.
The problem is that I use the famous Mozilla Thunderbird, and although it has two separate buttons for "Reply" and "Reply to mailing list", they both reply to the mailing list... which I've just learnt by this case. Excellent! :-(
So I am apologising.

Mails from the Xfce mailing lists have Reply-To: set, so this is why the "Reply" button generates a reply to the mailing list.

[Benedikt Meurer]

Post by Mikhail Batser
Hello!
That's another one case which demonstrate us all the stupidity of Linux developers :)

I doubt there is even a single line of code in Thunar contributed by a Linux developer. So your post is kinda off-topic here.

Post by Mikhail Batser
I had been a Linux user for several years, and I got completely sick of the system.

Which is also off-topic, since Thunar has nothing to do with Linux.

[Nick Schermer]

(The optimal thing, as far as I can tell, would be to have custom columns in
Thunar. In this way, one could have (and be able to sort by) not only
extension, but also ID3 tags for music and EXIF data for pictures .. but
that is probably too much to ask for?)

I have this problem too from time to time, so I agree it's definitely
worth improving. For extensions this is quite easy (although we are in
feature freeze, so it won't land for Xfce 4.8 / Thunar 1.2).

EXIF/ID3 would be an extension point (we don't want to depend on too
much libraries for various reasons), which is obviously a bit harder.
Anyway, I'll create bugs for this, because it is important and since
the focus for 1.4 is more on improving features (1.2 was all about the
thunar-vfs -> gio migration), there is a good change this will be
fixed.

Nick

[Michal Kaut]

Thanks.

Michal

Post by Nick Schermer

(The optimal thing, as far as I can tell, would be to have custom columns in
Thunar. In this way, one could have (and be able to sort by) not only
extension, but also ID3 tags for music and EXIF data for pictures .. but
that is probably too much to ask for?)

I have this problem too from time to time, so I agree it's definitely
worth improving. For extensions this is quite easy (although we are in
feature freeze, so it won't land for Xfce 4.8 / Thunar 1.2).
EXIF/ID3 would be an extension point (we don't want to depend on too
much libraries for various reasons), which is obviously a bit harder.
Anyway, I'll create bugs for this, because it is important and since
the focus for 1.4 is more on improving features (1.2 was all about the
thunar-vfs -> gio migration), there is a good change this will be
fixed.
Nick
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