Bug 361870

Summary:	mediaframe: Randomize items disabled but still randomized
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons	Reporter:	hamelg
Component:	Media Frame	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mereel, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.6.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	sort contents of directories alphabetically

Description hamelg 2016-04-16 20:09:07 UTC

I want to have the pictures displayed in the alphabetic filenames order, but the applet continues to play them in the random order, despite the check box "Randomize items" cleared. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 5 files named 1.png, 2.png, 3.png 4.png, 5.png in the directory test. For example, with imagemagick
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 72 label:111 1.png
2. add this directory in mediaframe paths
3. uncheck "Randomize items"

Actual Results:  
Images are displayed in random order

Expected Results:  
MediaFrame should played in this order : 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png

Comment 1 Joachim 2016-09-23 20:28:22 UTC

Hi

I just tried to reproduce it and for me it seems to work. I have kdeplasma-addons 5.7.5 installed. Does this problem still occur to you?

Comment 2 hamelg 2016-09-23 21:45:04 UTC

Here, this issue still occurs :(
The workaround is to add each file one by one in the right order.

Comment 3 Joachim 2016-09-24 09:56:22 UTC

Ahh, I found the root of the issue. It's not that the random setting gets ignored. The problem is that the files are not added to the list in alphabetical order, but for me it was in inverse creation order.
I assume more precisely it's inverse whatever-order-the-filesystem-returns. So for directories that have seen lots of changes it could also be some order that appears random. But as long as nobody touches that directory it will always be the same.

I can see the use of reading the files in alphabetical order. Would be nice to have. But that makes it a bit more difficult.

Comment 4 Joachim 2016-09-24 12:08:44 UTC

Created attachment 101255 [details]
sort contents of directories alphabetically

Attached a patch that makes directory contents added alphabetically.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2020-01-02 15:37:18 UTC

Cannot reproduce; looks like this was fixed.