Re: [gthumb-list] sort order of directories in sidebar

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 15/12/2012 21:11, Daniel Fetchinson ha scritto:
> Hi folks, is there a way to influence the sort order of directories as
> they appear in the tree-like structure on the sidebar? I keep my
> photos in directories whose names indicate the date, stuff like
>
> 1102_san_francisco
> 1104_new_york
> 110506_san_francisco
> 1109_whatever
> 111001_whatever2
>
> Sometimes it's just YYMM sometimes it's YYMMDD. The above order is how
> for example "ls" lists them and this order was shown in previous (2.x)
> versions of gthumb. Now however, with 3.0.1, the order is
>
> 1102_san_francisco
> 1104_new_york
> 1109_whatever
> 110506_san_francisco
> 111001_whatever2
>
> which is not what I want and couldn't find a setting for sorting. View
> > Sort By ... as far as I can tell only influences the sort order of
> photos, not the sort order of directories. Is it possible to somehow
> sort them just as "ls" would?

There is no way of doing that.  A possible solution is to rename the 
directories, for example renaming 1109_whatever as 110900_whatever puts 
it in the right place.

- Paolo