On 10/9/24 13:30, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
In one way it feels unfair to be told that you will not add the feature
I asked because there are a whole host of other features you won't add ...
So I would like to point to this part of your reasoning:
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Why not have (1) sort by name, (2) sort by size, (3) sort by date and
reverse sort for all 3 options?
(1) is what's currently implemented (with no reverse sort option hence
no UI to do that).
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It sounds like the way you think, is the following: for whatever
options we add, we should also have the reverse order option for the
same options.
Great thought!
But then, why not add reverse sort for the option you actually have
today, namely 'sort by name'?
Implementing just 'sort by name' would take us almost as much time as
implementing the whole thing (implement, test, document). Therefore
there is no point for us in implementing just 'sort by name'.
That would make the *current* sorting option more useful. And it would
be in tune with your thinking.
And if you want to add more options than you have today, I would suggest
'sort by file type', before sort by size or date. Why? Because it blends
in naturally with name sorting.
(In fact, I could be fine with replacing the current name sort with a
name sort that also considers file type. Yeah, you already consider
folder names to be of a different 'file type' than file names, since
folders always are grouped together.)
I will not push you to add sort by size or file date. I am fine with
using the file system for that.
However, since XXE has very bad interaction with the file system browser
(at least on Mac, where double clicking a file never opens the file in
XXE),
Only on the Mac in fact.
Ideally the first thing to do would be to solve XXE integration issues
on the Mac. The problem is that we have tried to do that several times
to no avail. Unfortunately it's a Java bug on the Mac which apparently
the Java developers at Oracle refuse to fix
(https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8043852).
it would be nice to have *some* enhancements (namely those I
proposed) to the file browsing pane.
Agreed. We'll add the "(1) sort by name, (2) sort by size, (3) sort by
date and reverse sort for all 3 options" feature to our TODO list (which
is not that big, so your RFE really does not go to /dev/null).
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