Persist sort order of list / tag grouping

[ghost]

After closing and opening the application, the sort order of a list view is lost. It would be great if that could persist across sessions. The same holds for the groupingby tag of the grid view.

[ghost]

Bounty: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/6549817-persist-sort-order-of-list-tag-grouping

[ghost]

There is now a $50 bounty for this.

[ghost]

I just tried out the latest git and the issue does not seem to be fixed.

To reproduce either

• add a new folder with default list view
• sort by date
• close app
• reopen app
• sort order is lost

or

• add a new folder with default grid view
• group by day
• close app
• reopen app
• grouping is lost

[claell]

I am sorry to hear this. It works for me with github version and Node Webkit on Ubuntu.

Did you followed the tutorial "How to run TagSpaces from the source code?"?:

How to run TagSpaces from the source code?

Get the TagSpaces source code by cloning its repository:

$git clone https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces.git

Run as native Windows, Linux or Mac OS X application

• Download node-webkit prebuilt binaries for your system environment.
  • For Windows: copy nw.exe, nw.pak, icudt.dll, ffmpegsumo.dll to tagspaces/data/node-webkit directory.
  • For Linux: copy nw, nw.pak, icudtl.dat, libffmpegsumo.so to tagspaces/data/node-webkit directory. If you experience issue related to libudev.so.0 read the following article.
  • For Mac OS X: copy node-webkit.app to tagspaces/data/node-webkit directory.
• Run the nw executable file.

But: I only added support for saving to list view. Nevertheless, the first usecase should work for you.

[ghost]

Yes, I did follow these exact instructions, also under Ubuntu, using the Github version.

I can verify that state persists when changing between directories. But when I close the app and re-start it, the sort order of the list-view is reset to sort by name, ascending.

[ghost]

Anyway, the bug should be understood to also cover the grid view. I imagine that the solution would be similar there.

[claell]

I will try a new installation as well as a Virtual PC with Ubuntu.

The solution for grid view is alot different afaik, but I can try to do it as well.

[claell]

Just tried a new installation, but it still works. I am using 64bit. Are you using 32 bit?

[ghost]

Sorry for the hassle. No, I am also on 64 bit. I'll try it over the weekend on a different computer, maybe it's some weird feature of my setup.

[claell]

No problem. Might be really be caused by your setup. I guess that @uggrock tested my pull request.

Regarding to the group view, found out that the grouping is switched with this function:

ExtUI.prototype.switchGrouping = function(grouping) {
        this.currentGrouping = grouping;
        //TSCORE.startTime = new Date().getTime(); 
        this.reInit();
    };

Unfortunately I do not know, how to store this new grouping so it can be read out and set again after a restart.

[ghost]

Hi, can confirm this now fixed on 10.1 (now, the previous folder isn't automatically opened on start anymore, but that's a different issue...). Thanks for your work!

I'll open a new issue for the grid perspective. Of course, any contribution there would be immensely helpful.

[claell]

Ok, glad that it works for you now. For me the previous folder is opened automatically at start, afaik.

Will see, what I can do for grid, but maybe @uggrock will find time to help as he knows better how to do JS.