Random sort & aspect ratio sort

[Chrisoyng]

Hello all,

Here are two sorting methods that I think would be fairly useful and possibly easy to implement. I'll explain why individually.

Random order:
good for reading comics or rediscovering images, easy to implement. If it is already a slideshow option, why not use the slideshow randomize instead?

1. Slideshow lacks quick actions, unable to share, favourite, copy, etc.
2. Slideshow makes you view images one at a time, so you can't go into mosaic mode and scan through quickly.

Aspect ratio/dimensions: good for finding a specific images for edge cases. In my opinion, less important than random order sort. Here's two use cases:

1. I can't find an image, and I didn't label it properly nor do I remember the date. I do remember it was a portrait photo. As a last resort I can sort by aspect ratio.
2. Surprisingly useful sorting: screenshots will be sorted automatically by aspect ratio and orientation; useful when other sort methods fail.

Thanks for considering the suggestion. Question as well; if these suggestions are approved, how long might it take to be added?

[deckerst]

Regarding aspect ratio, there are a couple of things already available in the app:

1. in the search page, there are the "Portrait" and "Landscape" filters,
2. it's not a documented feature but in the search query (or the dynamic title filter) you can use a simple syntax like width>20000, height=2280.

if these suggestions are approved, how long might it take to be added?

It does not work like that. When I have the time and energy, I develop or fix whatever I fancy. No order, no plan.

[Chrisoyng]

Thanks, i didn't know that was a search query thing; are there any other undocumented ones?

[deckerst]

From memory, there's also "size" (in bytes, but it understand "k", "g" and "m" suffix too), "year", "month" (as a number), and "day".

[deckerst]

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• Sort by random #735