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** Changed in: nautilus
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  "Automatic item reordering" feature should be removed

Status in Nautilus:
  Won't Fix
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nautilus

  First of all, sorry for my English but I really would like to suggest.

  Currently, Nautilus file browser will "reorder" the items whenever the
  contents of the folder changes. However, I would like to suggest that
  this feature should be left off, as it causes too much usability
  problems. The reason is that the item position should not be
  unnecessarily changed because the user is likely to working on the
  contents of the folder. Reordering will be confusing in many cases.

  For example, if  I copy 5 files into name-ordered view, all copied
  files will be spread into its position and some might not be visible.
  I'm then not so sure that I have copied 5 files already or not.

  The reordering also causing this bugs
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336955
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/79351

  I appreciate hard work of Gnome developer, but I think this feature is
  not necessary and should be removed. I would like to suggest that
  reordering should occur only when

  1. Opening folder
  2. Refreshing folder
  3. Deleting items

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