Files view should show/sort directories before files

Bug #240512 reported by Olav Vitters
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
loggerhead
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Albisetti
1.6
Fix Released
Undecided
Martin Albisetti

Bug Description

It is pretty difficult to see the difference between files and directories, as these are mixed up.

Suggest to sort directories before files. I'd really love if loggerhead also made more use of Tango icons (probably should file another bugreport for that).

Look first at:
  http://bzr-mirror.gnome.org:9876/mango/trunk/files

Now look at:
  http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/mango/trunk/

It is far easier to determine the directories using the viewvc layout IMO.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

I think this is a sensible UI change - many UI's show directories before files, and as any sort order in this view is arbitrary we could definitely keep the old sort as an option if this is a contentious change.

+1 from me on just changing it though.

Changed in loggerhead:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

Fair enough. There are plans afoot to change to using icons to distinguish the different inventory entry kinds, which will probably help here too.

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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

Fixed in a branch I'm working that will get in before 1.6 :)

Changed in loggerhead:
assignee: nobody → beuno
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

*with* icons to distinguish

Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in loggerhead:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in loggerhead:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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