files needs a group function
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Files |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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elementary UX | ||
Bug Description
Pantheon-Files can sort directories and files by name, date and so on. But I miss a grouping function. You should be able to group your directories and files at least by date. Possible groups: today, yesterday, this week, this month, this year, long ago. That would be very usefull. If you have a download directory sorted by date (new things on top) and you're searching for something you downloaded and maybe extracted to a folder this day, you must scroll to the top and check directories on top and then scroll to the middle and check the files on top. With a group you can just check the group today on top of the folder.
You can check for example kde's dolphin file manager or windows explorer. Especially the grouping of windows explorer with its groups is very well done and for me the most missing feature.
I think that a right click context menu option "group" would be the right choice.
Thanks,
Johannes
| Julián Unrrein (junrrein) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in pantheon-files: | |
| assignee: | nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design) |
| Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote | #3 |
| tags: | added: needs-design |
| Changed in pantheon-files: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Adding ~elementary-design so they can comment on the idea.