Selection lost when changing sorting order by clicking columns in listview or switching between icons grid view and list view
As tested with version 43.1:
- Select a bunch of non-contiguous files
- In grid view, switch to list view. Result: the selection is reset/lost.
- Now that you are in list view, select another set of files (with ctrl+clicking)
- Click the "Name" or "Modified" column header to change the sort order. Result: the selection is lost again.
From what I remember, this was not the case in Nautilus 40 (and possibly 42) and older; selections were always maintained no matter how you switched between view modes or sorting modes.
Note that in version 43.1, in listview and iconview, if you change the sorting order using the menubutton instead of the listview's column headers, the selection is preserved.