Bug 210360

Summary: Allow to sort by file type category instead of file type
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Christoph Feck <cfeck>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: frank78ac, kde-2011.08, mrowkabartek
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christoph Feck 2009-10-12 19:38:04 UTC 
Version:           1.3.80 (using 4.3.71 (KDE 4.3.71 (KDE 4.4 >= 20091007)), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31-10-desktop

I usually have Dolphin sort mode set to "Sort by Type", as this nicely groups text files, pictures, etc.

But often I look for, say, a picture, and am much surprised that I do not see it grouped with other pictures, because it is of a different type (GIF vs JPEG vs PNG).

So an option to sort by actual categories would be nice. All image types should have the category "Image".

Ideally, it allows me to specify which mime types the categories contain, for example, I could make "rpm" and "tar.bz2" be both of type "Package".
Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2010-03-21 13:44:23 UTC 
Exactly! Humans do not think in terms of avi, mov, mpg but rather in terms of "movie file". KDE already knows to associate the different file types, in System Settings for setting default applications.
Comment 2 Frank Reininghaus 2011-01-12 20:00:09 UTC 
*** Bug 262982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2011-01-12 20:02:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166879 ***