Enable other sort orders in addition to alphabetic ascending
When opening an image or directory of images in Eye of GNOME, the sorted order of the gallery is always alphabetically ascending. This can be very confusing as a user because the directory in Nautilus may be sorted based on a more situationally-relevant attribute like "Modified" datetime. Eye of GNOME does not notice the sort order of the directory from the Nautilus instance it was opened from, and does not allow changing the sort order after opening Eye of GNOME.
I have numerous photos and images and would like to look through them in chronological order, but Eye of GNOME does not allow this, so I cannot use Eye of GNOME. I believe many users expect to be able to sort based on file modification time, and this would bring a very substantial usability improvement. Dozens of existing forum threads universally tell people to avoid using Eye of GNOME specifically due to the lack of this functionality.
Previous discussion:
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448979
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590745
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782293
Very small selection of related outside discussions:
- https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1939855
- https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1714855
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/16356/opening-images-sorted-by-modification-date-size-type-etc
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/518819/how-can-i-run-the-slideshow-in-a-specified-order
- https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=193294