The most recent release of the iOS app has removed the option to sort folders and files together, and now forces all folders above files.
As a long-time Mac user, where sorting the two together was the default, having the folders all appear above the files is just confusing — and results in a tired finger after I’ve scrolled past them to get to the actual file I wanted.
Is this option being removed from Server? If so, please don’t. Just because Microsoft does something a particular way doesn’t mean everybody else should have to. And changing someone’s settings to your preferred option is pretty obnoxious, TBH.
I really don’t want to have to have a single folder called “Folders” in the top level as a workaround, especially since the behaviour will still be confusing and broken once I go into it to get to something that isn’t in my Nextcloud root…
Since it was done on purpose by the developers, the best way is to discuss this with them. If people care about this feature, for me there is no point in removing it and the only discussion for me would be, what is the default supposed to be (either keep a unified behavior through all Nextcloud, or keep a unified behavior through the operating system).
For making topics stick out more on github, you can use reactions on the initial post to give it some support.
the “Folders on top” options have been removed like Android & Server
and it hasn’t even been removed in Server. I was really posting here to find out if that statement was true — is the option to sort folders on top going to be removed in Server? Has it been removed in Android? (I can’t test that as I don’t have an Android device.)
It took a month to get that response, too, so I’m not hopeful that trying to discuss this with the dev is going to get the option reinstated any time soon, and meanwhile Nextcloud for iOS is unusable for me without being able to stop folders being on top. That makes Nextcloud as a whole unusable for me.
This client is linked from the Nextcloud site as the official client. Surely that means that there’s some overall strategy on what features are supported between the server and the various clients, and it’s not just left up to the individual devs to make it up as they go along?
We have no details about the release planning, and what strategies they decide on. But if something is customizable already, and some people prefer it, it would be strange to remove it.
Only things you can try, go into the other repositories, and see if some things are worked on (pull requests, projects within github).