Bug 152241

Summary: sort by file type should rely on file extension where mime-type is the same
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) <estellnb>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: bluedzins, bugseforuns, codestruct, finex, mail, peter.penz19, popov895
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429579
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Description Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2007-11-13 10:51:57 UTC 
Version:           3.5.8 (using KDE 3.5.8 "release 21.2" , openSUSE )
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16.53-0.16-default

Diverse kinds of notes, docs, source and configuration files are classified alltogether as 'simple text' by the 'file type' column of Konqueror. Nevertheless these files use to serve very different purposes and should not be clumped together when sorting by file type. Where the exact file type of plain text or binary files is not known, Konqueror should concat the generic file type denotion with the file extension in brackets to make it obvious how files are going to be sorted after a click on the 'file type' column.
  Differencing generic file types by extension is highly reasonable and  would furthermore meet the wishes of former Windows users (Bug 78358) while it stays consistent with KDEs mime-type related classification of files.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-09-16 21:28:09 UTC 
@Peter: this could be interesting on dolphin... isn't?
Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2009-09-17 11:58:23 UTC 
  Why not for kde4-konqueror? I personally prefer konqueror for file management. In my mind dolphin is a poor regression towards konqueror. It has no sidebar, no entangeled split-views. Two features I am using heavily. Once konqueror was one of the main reasons why I have switched from Windows to Linux. Anyway. I believe many people prefer konqueror as file management tool.
Comment 3 Peter Penz 2009-09-17 12:21:17 UTC 
@Elmar: Konqueror uses Dolphin internally for filemanagement, so if this functionality is available in Dolphin it is automatically available in Konqueror.
Comment 4 Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2009-09-18 10:44:41 UTC 
fantastic.
Comment 5 Julian Steinmann 2017-06-29 17:48:12 UTC 
Using Dolphin 17.04.2, file types like .cpp or .h are all grouped together when sorting by file type -> seems to be implemented.
Comment 6 Gregor Mi 2018-01-04 13:00:04 UTC 
In dolphin 17.08.3 I created some files which are all recognized as "plain text document" but with different file extensions (a.txt, a.tx, b.txt, b.tx etc.).

When I add the Type column and sort by it, all files are treated as one group:
a.txt
a.tx
b.txt
b.tx

But should be:
a.txt
b.txt
a.tx
b.tx

Thus, the original wish request is not implemented yet.
Comment 7 popov895 2022-04-19 20:34:55 UTC 
It's 2022 and it still hasn't been fixed 🤦