[Thunar-dev] Sort by MIME category

[Erlend Davidson]

On 28 Jul 2007, at 11:48, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> 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.

Yeah it's confusing for some types, for example: application/ogg, or  
application/postscript ... these are not actually application filetypes.