Bug 47750

Summary:	Supported file types list should be sorted alphabeticaly
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer>
Component:	Open/save dialogs	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.samirh78, bugseforuns, kdelibs-bugs, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs, usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Ferdinand Gassauer 2002-09-11 16:42:50 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kfile
Version:           KDE 3.0.7 1 beta1)
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-4GB
OS/Compiler notes: 

Hi!
long unsorted lists (comboboxes) are difficult to read.
IMHO the combobox "supported filetypes" should be sorted alphabeticaly (appart "all [supoorted] files")
cu
ferdinand

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
(Called from KBugReport dialog. Fields Application manually changed)

Comment 1 Ferdinand Gassauer 2007-06-24 09:23:32 UTC

3.5.7 IMHO still a usability issue
(kword,kolour paint ...)

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:34:23 UTC

Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2021-07-24 11:16:06 UTC

Per the discussion in https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/515, if KFileFilterCombo sorts the lit of mimetypes, it would override the order that the calling app could have set, an example is libreoffice putting e.g. *.odt at the top of the list.

So, this has to be fixed per app, not in open file dialog.