Organise Desktop by TYPE

[ozdroggy]

I am using Mate/Gnome and am only offered "Organise Desktop by Name". I would far prefer by Type.
Can someone suggest how this can be done please? Through terminal???

[abnvolk]

What do you mean by Type?
You mean something like Applications then Mounted Drives then Home and Trash?

[ozdroggy]

Thanks for your reply and sorry for the late answer.

What do you mean by Type?
You mean something like Applications then Mounted Drives then Home and Trash?

Yes - I often have documents, spread sheets, graphics, PDFs on the desktop at various times and would like to group them in those categories (type??)

[abnvolk]

I think you can set it in the file manager settings (Nautilus/Caja/Nemo). Just navigate to Desktop, right-click and you're there Unfortunately I can't understand why my desktop icons are not showing, so I can't ensure it.

[cyttorak]

ozdroggy, did you find any solution?
I'm looking for the same

[DrHu]

The only OS that managed documents by type was BEOS with their tracker application and hidden file system attributes

• or via MIME typing
  --which is still possible on any OS

http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/bible/exc_filetype.html

• The Filetyping Solution: MIME
  When MacOS and Windows were developed, hardly anyone knew the Internet even existed. But BeOS had the advantage of evolving while the Internet was in heavy growth mode, and Be was paying attention
  ...
  Rather than worrying too much about how to handle proprietary file formats like Word and Photoshop documents, the Internet depends on a system called MIME, or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (the "mail" bit arises from the fact that MIME grew out of solutions originally built for handling email attachments). The MIME system looks at filetypes in terms of their overall class (image, text, audio, and so forth). Every file, without exception, belongs to one of these meta-classes, or "supertypes."

Of coures the simplest method is just create folder(s) of that file type and save those file types into those folders (on the desktop or elsewhere)

• MyDesktop
• PDF
• Music_MP3
• Photos_JPG
• Videos_MP4

File(s)..
http://filext.com/
http://www.file-extensions.org/
http://webdesign.about.com/od/multimedia/a/mime-types-by-file-extension.htm