If you're not a developer, you're always free to set a bounty in money for others to implement; that'll foster development. It seems to me that people complaining mistake "free as in speech" for "free as in beer", and also take for granted that, just because a community exists, they have to abuse it giving little in change.
Quite a lot of GNOME contributors are volunteers. They deserve more respect than be bullied around at every user request. If you really want to discuss this issue, bring it up on the [email protected]. Of course there are *always* someone asking for something that isn't there. I've seen all sort of issues across bugzilla; some reasonable, some not. The ability to set priority and tasks, and also the great burden to say 'no' and disgruntle someone in the user base, is a painful and too-often underestimated process: it takes time, effort, and even the best diplomacy sometimes turns out to be wasted. This is very discouraging. *A lot* of devs got so fed up at people *pretending* things, that they now start ignoring them in the first place. This is sad, of course; but the best way to avoid this happening surely isn't being so vocal in the wrong place. In the end, someone has to steer the wheel. The decision that has been taken with nautilus has been the one most requested at the time of implementation. Please also research bugs complaining about lexicographical ordering, and MLs. Yours isn't a proof people want to change implementation, just that there exist someone disgruntled (a person, in the comment you pointed out, that hasn't been active in bugzilla apart from that). Your reasoning is faulty there. As a side note, try push a feature request like this up to, say, Microsoft or Apple, since "Ubuntu will never be the OS for the masses". Please keep us posted on their response. They tell me that even a phone call is around 18€ in Microsoft. This kind of angst-driven comments really makes me take the other side of the discussion, despite the technical merits. ----------- By the way, to stay more on this bug contents: if an implementation of this really needs to be there, the right way in my opinion to have it is by adding a new gconf key retaining current sorting behaviour by default, but *not* adding a new UI element in the nautilus preferences dialog. Please note that lexicographical ordering is hard nevertheless in the UTF-8 world. -- sort order of files listings in nautilus is not alphabetical https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
