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

[Joshua Salles]

I have this same issue on 3.12.2-1 and found that if you use dconf-editor
and navigate to org.gnome.nautilus.preferences you can change the value of
'sort-directories-first' to get it to work.

Thanks

On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:31:00 +0100 Z <bugs at theloosespoke.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
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