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kickingvegas / casual-dired

Casual Dired - An opinionated Transient user interface for Emacs file manager Dired.
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UX Change: Revise Sort By Menu #32

Closed kickingvegas closed 3 months ago

kickingvegas commented 3 months ago

The current Sort By menu does not abstract away enough of the ls command line switches. For users who are not familiar with such command line switches this is problematic. For example instead of using the label “all”, it’s probably better to use “Show all (including dot files)”.

https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired/blob/07eeb64dfe576e2926d49cf0a87801a579885785/docs/images/casual-dired-sort-by-screenshot.png

Action item is to revisit prefix argument labels to better communicate behavior to a user not familiar with ls. That said, changes should not block a user who is already familiar with ls command line switches.

kickingvegas commented 3 months ago

Related to #28 in that "--all" command line switch is controlled by the Sort By menu.