[RESOLVED] Interesting sorting behavior in Dolphin

[oshunluvr]

I noticed this just this morning: I have a directory full of files with sequential names. "Episode 01, Episode 02" etc. Each file has a subtitle file associated with it the uses the exact same file name but has a different extension. "mp4" for the episodes and "srt" for the subtitles.

When using "Name" as the sort field, this results in each set of files listed with the mp4 then it's immediately followed by the srt file. So for example:

Episode 01.mp4
Episode 01.srt
Episode 02.mp4
Episode 02.srt

This is as expected.

Sometimes I want to do something with just the subtitle files (edit, move, whatever) I want to group the files by type so I click on "Type" to sort them, but this also reverses the alphabetical order resulting in:

Episode 02.srt
Episode 01.srt
Episode 02.mp4
Episode 01.mp4

This is NOT expected nor desired.

So the question I have is whether or not this is intended behavior or if the second sort field - which does not appear to be configurable - is simply set wrong in the code.

Another possibility is that there is some other field that is the secondary sort field and I just haven't discovered it yet. Like maybe file access time or whatever. I would need to set up a test to confirm this.

I'm wondering if anyone has any insight to this - either to confirm what I see or clarify what controls the secondary sort field.

It appears at this point, that the secondary sort is reverse alphabetical which I do not prefer, and if so, I will likely file a bug report on it.

[oshunluvr]

Well a little more playing about and I discovered what was happening:

I had sorted the the Type in reverse alphabetical. So what happens is it groups the files, then sorts them alphabetically. I had "srt" at the top of the list so "mp4" files followed the srt files. When I click on "Type" again, it moves the srt files to the bottom and sorts all the files by name.

I expect this is what to developer intended.