View Full Version : [gnome] Tweaking Nautilus' file sorting order?
milkmiruku
December 31st, 2010, 05:03 PM
I've recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu and have a question regarding tweaking the character order Nautilus uses for alphabetical sorting. In my music/graphics/etc folder hierarchies, I have used a hyphen at the start as a 'hack' to 'sticky' some folders above the rest for quicker access. This worked fine in Windows, but Nautilus ignores a hyphen in it's sorting calculations. Is there anyway, simple or complex to replicate this behaviour in Nautilus? Thanks for any help!
coffeecat
December 31st, 2010, 06:16 PM
That's an interesting one. All the non-alphabetic symbols I've used don't make a difference, but if you preface the folder name with a numeric character, it does get "stickied" before the others. However, a single number such as 0 or 1 doesn't stand out enough and is easily confused as part of the folder name, but you could use a number followed by two hyphens. Try:
0--nameoffolder
or
1--nameoffolder
You can still clearly read the folder name and you could have a hierarchy of "stickied" folders that way.
milkmiruku
January 4th, 2011, 05:58 PM
hmm, at least that would work, ta for the idea. er, i know there's probably a way to script something to change all existing folders begining with "- " - could anyone give me a pointer as to what i should be looking at? at least if a better solution comes up, it shouldn't be too hard to revert the names back! :)
Krytarik
January 4th, 2011, 11:49 PM
I use pyRenamer for this sort of tasks, it has a GUI. There may be some command line tools, which can also do this.
Thanks for the tip with the numbers, coffeecat. I have the same setup as milkmiruku, initially set up in Windows a few years ago, overlooking this issue in Linux until now.
Serguey Basalaev
March 7th, 2011, 08:58 AM
In Nautilus you can also add emblems to important folders and set Sort by Emblem
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