XnView Software

My first bug report, apologies if not done correctly.

Subject: 1.7.2 64-bit (Linux): Folder list order not alphabetical

XnView: MP 1.7.2 64-bit (Linux) - Libformat 7.180
OS: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6.04 64bit. Kernel 6.8.0-40-generic

Folders in the folder pane do not show in alphabetical or other consistent order.

Effect:

If I add a folder, it always shows at the end. More of an impact is when loading folders they often aren't in alphabetical order. It's fixed on close and restart, but if I'm going 5 folders deep, it happens as often as not.

The folders seem to be ordered in batches, i.e. it will go a-z, but miss out some files. Then go a-z for the remainder, or some of the remainder, and then again etc. Once it's wrong it stays wrong until restart.

It's all fine in the thumbnail window (not sure of name), it will sort actively and is always correct.

It may be related to another issue, which I'll report separately and call "1.7.2 64-bit (Linux): Unable to delete folders"

It's more pronounced the more folders there are in a location. But that may just be statistics.

It is XNViewMP only, folder view in Nemo file explorer works ok.

It may be that this only occurs with NTFS partitions, all my complex folders are on NTFS so I can't check. But my other issue which may be related seems to be NTFS only.

To reproduce:
1. XNViewMP in Linux
2. Have folder panel displayed
3. Expand a folder on an NTFS partition with many subfolders

Actual behaviour (bug): folders not sorted alphabetically; place new folders at the bottom of the list; does not refresh

Expected behaviour: consistent sorting, refreshed. As the thumbnail list is.

you have this problem only when creating a new folder?

No it does it when reading folder lists only. i.e. if I click the + to expand a folder list in the folder pane, or double click a folder in what I'm calling the thumbnail pane to expand it. But it's inconsistent.

It would be good if it could refresh the folder pane sort order on F5. Which makes sense to me from my position of ignorance. Thank you for looking at it. On investigation it seems I've installed XNViewMP through the deb package, if that matters.

More of an impact is when loading folders they often aren't in alphabetical order. It's fixed on close and restart, but if I'm going 5 folders deep, it happens as often as not.

The folders seem to be ordered in batches, i.e. it will go a-z, but miss out some files. Then go a-z for the remainder, or some of the remainder, and then again etc. Once it's wrong it stays wrong until restart.

do you have same problem on EXT3/4 drive?

xnview wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 1:42 pm do you have same problem on EXT3/4 drive?

I am not certain. New folders certainly drop at the bottom, and it doesn't update. Whether the reading is sometimes wrong I haven't seen, as I don't have media on ext4.

I will try and have a faff and see if it happens. It happens more often with more complex folders, I don't know if big files, big number of files or image files makes a difference. If it's either of the second two it won't pop.

I'll do it later today and come back.

As far as I can tell, it's ok on EXT4.

Kenny Dave wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 4:51 pm As far as I can tell, it's ok on EXT4.

ok, i'll try to add a ntfs drive to check...

xnview wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:43 am

Kenny Dave wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 4:51 pm As far as I can tell, it's ok on EXT4.

ok, i'll try to add a ntfs drive to check...

Thank you Sounds like the deleting folders (viewtopic.php?f=62&t=47674) is the same issue, and consistent so easier to check. Sorry for not spotting that it was NTFS only, that would have made things quicker and easier.

So I've moved my pics and gifs to EXT4 and when there are a lot of folders or a lot of files, the problem returns even on EXT4.

I don't know if there is anything in the new version (1.8 ) that could help, but I couldn't install it. I don't know if it's a problem with the deb or on Mint's end.


So if you can confirm then I'll go ask at the Mint forums. I've got a year old deb so I can uninstall XNViewMP and see if that will go on request.

you need to ignore libglib2.0-0 to install 1.8.0

Thanks, I had no idea I could do that. The command for others on Ubuntu 24 base is:
Seems to run as before with a quick check.

Kenny Dave wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:45 pm

hi

i did not see issue my Linux list folder order...please explain me..