Written by MechaMechanism the 21 Sep 10 at 01:08.

Allow Nautilus to sort and display folders named by month. As example, 3 folders named February, May, July, would be sorted by February, May, July. If users would like to be able to toggle sorting between month name and alphabetical name then we should include a toggle.

Currently Nautilus sorts folders using alphabetical and numerical. I would like to see the addition of sorting using month names.

Allow Nautilus to sort and display folders named by month. As example, 3 folders named February, May, July, would be sorted by February, May, July. If users would like to be able to toggle sorting between month name and alphabetical name then we should include a toggle. Currently Nautilus sorts folders using alphabetical and numerical. I would like to see the addition of sorting using month names.

Written by Goury the 22 Sep 10 at 08:31.

but sort by some configable rules

but sort by some configable rules

Written by oliver-joos the 28 Sep 10 at 13:20.

In Nautilus every file and folder may have notes. These notes should be displayable as column! Then a folder "January" could get a note beginning with "01", folder "February" one with "02", and so on. Sorting this column alphanumerically would do it.

This would solve this idea and other similar problems, it has no problems with I18N, it would make notes more useful, and it would not introduce new concepts. (Solutions #1 and #2 are more "intelligent", and an OS should never try be more intelligent than its users ;-)

In Nautilus every file and folder may have notes. These notes should be displayable as column! Then a folder "January" could get a note beginning with "01", folder "February" one with "02", and so on. Sorting this column alphanumerically would do it. This would solve this idea and other similar problems, it has no problems with I18N, it would make notes more useful, and it would not introduce new concepts. (Solutions #1 and #2 are more "intelligent", and an OS should never try be more intelligent than its users ;-)

Written by Aielyn the 19 Oct 10 at 07:18.

Basically, this would allow, for instance, the option of having the folder's *name* as "January", but when Nautilus sorts it, it sorts by the "sort name", which would be "01".

To make this work neatly, the system would default to the "sort name" being the same as the folder name, but a right-click would allow you to either select from some predicted options, or input your own. If it detects month names in either short or long form ("Jan" or "January"), it automatically gives "01" as an option.

Should two folders have the same sort name, they are sorted by their folder names, so if you have "January" and "My Birthday" both marked with "01" as the sort name, then "January" goes first because J comes before M.

An option would, of course, allow you to override this behaviour, and sort only by folder name, or sort by sort name and then by date created, or other such options.

Basically, this would allow, for instance, the option of having the folder's *name* as "January", but when Nautilus sorts it, it sorts by the "sort name", which would be "01". To make this work neatly, the system would default to the "sort name" being the same as the folder name, but a right-click would allow you to either select from some predicted options, or input your own. If it detects month names in either short or long form ("Jan" or "January"), it automatically gives "01" as an option. Should two folders have the same sort name, they are sorted by their folder names, so if you have "January" and "My Birthday" both marked with "01" as the sort name, then "January" goes first because J comes before M. An option would, of course, allow you to override this behaviour, and sort only by folder name, or sort by sort name and then by date created, or other such options.