Bug#759193: FileChooser dialog intermixes files and directories

[Andrew Shadura]

Hello,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:53:36 +0100
Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

Well, we declare our priorities are users, not upstreams. And of about
twenty users I asked about this change, none found it useful or good,
and some have seriously questioned the sanity of people who decided on
this. This clearly is a regression, as GTK+ isn't used by just GNOME,
and no other environments have implemented such change, so it's very
unreasonable to have different settings just in GTK+ 3 applications
outside of GNOME 3.

> 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.

Mixing files and directories distracts users and makes finding needed
directories and files significantly slower, so I disagree it's
overstating.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew
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