Bug#759193: FileChooser dialog intermixes files and directories

[Simon McVittie]

On 25/08/14 07:54, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> In file open/file save dialog, files and directories are displayed in a
> mixed order, without directories shown first. It seems that for proper
> operation org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-directories-first setting
> needs to be set to true from now on.

This appears to have been a deliberate design change during the 3.11
cycle, to match the behaviour of Nautilus >= 3.5 which also defaults to
mixing files with directories. So I think this is likely to be wontfix
unless the Debian GNOME maintainers intend to diverge from upstream.

Whether or not you prefer "directories first", this seems fairly clearly
a matter of preference, and the setting still exists, so I think "for
proper operation" is overstating the severity.

    S