Re: [Nautilus-list] [PATCH] for bug 77174 (Nautilus sorts in opposite order when "sort in reverse order" chosen)

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:38, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. It seems fm_list_model_add_file() has the same problem.
> 
> Also, it seems strange that SORT_ASCENDING means reverse sort. That 

Maybe (I also had a hard time deciding this). In any case the choice is
dictated by the following code, in src/file-manager/fm-list-view.c,
set_sort_order_from_metadata_and_preferences ():

	gtk_tree_sortable_set_sort_column_id (GTK_TREE_SORTABLE
(list_view->details->model),
					      sort_column_id,
					      sort_reversed ? GTK_SORT_ASCENDING : GTK_SORT_DESCENDING);

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This choice might be easier to justify if we think about the case of
sorting by size.  By default we should put smaller files after bigger
files, hence descending in the default case and ascending when the sort
is reversed.

What do you think?

> doesn't sound right. Maybe we're getting model->details->order wrong 
> instead.
> 
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