KDE File Picker Date Sort Configurable?

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I was a bit surprised just now to find that the sort order for Date in the KDE file picker is not consistent with the sort order for dates in dolphin (i.e. dolphin down arrow = descending = newest date first, KDE file picker down arrow = ascending = oldest date first). All other sorts seem to be consistent. Is this configurable somewhere, or should I be raising this as a bug?

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hi, welcome.

sounds like something is wrong with your install if that is the case.

⌃ should be oldest to newest (ascending order)

⌄ should be newest to oldest (descending order)

works the same in dolphin as it does in the kate file picker when you choose Open… from the menu.

both kate and dolphin use the same Qt file picker, so they should be the same

if you are using a different app, it may be calling the GTK file picker which looks quite different form the one in kate… and who knows what rules that uses.

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No, definitely the right file picker. Here it is launched directly from Kate, side by side with Dolphin with the sort set to the same on each for the same location. This is on a CachyOS install. If this is a configuration issue (which I haven’t changed), I’m trying to find where I can change that configuration.

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I see the same behaviour as you in Fedora. In Dolphin, down arrow means “oldest at top”, In the filepicker it means “newest at top”.

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I think there is an interaction with the “Newest/Oldest First” setting in this dropdown menu in the filepicker:

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The sort order can be set either there, or by clicking on the column header.

These settings sometimes seem to go out of sync, e.g. set “Newest First” from that dropdown menu, then click the column heading so that the oldest files are at the top. Then, if you go back to the dropdown, it still says “Newest First”.

If I select “Oldest First” from the dropdown, then the arrow seems to start following the Dolphin convention (down arrow = “oldest at top”).

But I’m not sure I reproduced all the different combinations of clicks that one can do.

There’s definitely something counterintuitive here which is worth further investigation.

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Also, when sorting by clicking the columns in details view, if the the column was already sorted on opening the file picker it will sometimes just reverse the arrow on click, but not change the sort direction, then the sort direction changes in the wrong direction on the next click. Always happend on second click in my tests, here’s a short screen capture:

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