Ticket #4373 (closed defect: fixed)
Sort order menu shortcut changed from S to O, why?
| Reported by: | birdie | Owned by: | andrew_b |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 4.8.29 |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | 4.8.28 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: | committed-master |
Description
I'm quite upset as to why MC 4.8.28 has changed the Sort order shortcut in the menu from S to O.
Is there any justification for that? Could we get the old shortcut back? There's nothing else which uses the S character in the F9 menu.
"S" has been used for for over two decades, now it doesn't work.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Milestone 4.8.29 deleted
comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by birdie
There's no SFTP in Midnight Commander 4.8.28 in Fedora 36.
SFTP is not such a popular protocol to change the 20 year old defaults.
Whatever, looks like you don't care.
comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by birdie
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution wontfix deleted
In the "SFTP link..." menu item there are at least seven more characters to use.
Let's check:
- K is not used anywhere else
- N is not used anywhere else
Yeah, let's break what people are used to. Have you become the Gnome project followers?
comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by birdie
The maintainer in Fedora has applied the patch but it doesn't seem to work:
.mozilla.ram .wine .ICE-unix .X11-unix .XIM-unix .chrome-cache .font-unix .vbox-birdie-ipc .wine-1000
I don't understand this sort order.
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 2 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from reopened to closed
- Resolution set to wontfix
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 2 years ago by birdie
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution wontfix deleted
Replying to andrew_b:
Is it possible to use N or K for SFTP please?
I've used the S shortcut for sorting for 20 years. I totally don't like how someone has decided to break decades old shortcuts.
comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from reopened to accepted
- Owner set to andrew_b
- Component changed from mc-key-bindings to mc-core
- Milestone set to 4.8.29
comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from accepted to testing
- Votes for changeset set to committed-master
- Resolution set to fixed
comment:10 Changed 2 years ago by birdie
A big warm thank you, Andrew!
https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4284
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2022-April/msg00001.html