[Thunar-dev] Sort by MIME category

[Benedikt Meurer]

sayan at crans.org wrote:
>>> Like many file managers, Thunar has a "sort by type" option. Is this 
>>> based simply on file extension?
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to sort by MIME category? I would like to have 
>>> images separated from audio and text files for example, with all known 
>>> image formats grouped together. Inside a MIME category, files could then 
>>> be sorted alphabetically or by MIME type.
>>>
>>> Thanks for this great file manager.
>> "Sort by Type" does sorting based on the comment of the MIME type.
>>
> I am sorry but this is not sorting based on the MIME category.
> 
> In my work folder, I have files of kind (as reported by file properties 
> in Thunar 0.8.0, sorted by type):
> 
> Gimp Image
> EPS Image
> PDF document
> plain text
> PNG Image
> 
> I would like the following sorting:
> 
> (application category)
> PDF document
> 
> (image category)
> Gimp Image
> EPS Image
> PNG Image
> 
> (text category)
> plain text

That would be possible. But possibly confusing to the user.

Benedikt