Created attachment 9625 Menu path in gimp to demonstrate what I mean I would love for the right click menu to have a filter option, which expands to another menu containing "images", "audio", "hidden", etc. and each of those expands to be more specific still e. g. "html", "png", "*rc". After a filter is chosen, it could be removed with a right click and another filter, or simply clicking the original option.
Thanks for reporting ! I generally would agree that a filter-feature would be nice, though what you propose (a multi-tree) looks very complex. E.g. it's not that easy to tell programmatically which file-types belong to the category "image", "archive", etc. .. and I dont want to maintain lists. I would keep it more simple .. e.g. you could write .png into a filter text field. That would show you all .png files. Like e.g. dolphin currently does. I dont think that a filter feature would be used often enough to justify a place in the - already crowded - context menu. IMO should be sufficient to access filtering via the menu (or via shortcut) Since we already have a bug regarding a filter feature, I will close this one. Patches on the original bug would be very welcome ! (I will not have time to work on it in the near future) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2316 ***