Bug#758811: nautilus: 'sort folders before files' does not work

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Package: nautilus
Version: 3.12.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I launched nautilus, and wanted the folders arranged before the files, which I
find makes it much easier to find folders (I think it used to be, and should
be, default). I launched 'preferences', and ticked the box labelled 'sort
folders before files'. Nothing changed, either straight away, or when I closed
preferences, went to a different folder, or even closed and reopened nautilus.
I then discovered that it forgets me ticking that box as soon as I have closed
preferences, so that if I reopen preferences, it is unticked. I haven't noticed
any other issues with different options. What should happen is behaviour
similar to the 'show hidden and backup files': when ticked, this preference is
instantly applied, and continues to be applied, even when you go to other
folders, or even quit the program and restart it. This means of course that
when you next go onto preferences the option should be a s you left it. I have
not always had this issue, I am not sure when it started happening, possibly
with gnome 3.12 - I reinstalled debian due to another issue at the time, and
noticed the problem straight away.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.12.2-1
ii  gvfs                       1.20.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.1-2
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-1
ii  libgail-3-0                3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.40.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.40.0-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10      3.12.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.12.2-1
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.3-1
ii  libselinux1                2.3-1
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.0.2-1+b1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-2
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  nautilus-data              3.12.2-1
ii  shared-mime-info           1.3-1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  eject                      2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.12.0-2
ii  gvfs-backends              1.20.2-1
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.2-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  brasero                3.10.0-1
ii  eog                    3.12.2-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.12.1-1
ii  totem                  3.12.1-1
ii  tracker                1.0.2-1+b1
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.1.4-1+b3
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.1.4-1+b3
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-1

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