[FEATURE REQUEST] Order the Storage file listing by most recent date at the top

[vanboom]

Suggestion: reversing the storage file listing order to show the most recent gcode files at the top would be a great workflow improvement vs. having to scroll to the bottom to find the newly uploaded files. Thanks for a great software - I will attempt a PR if I can get a dev env set up for this.

[ondratu]

Thanks, for your suggestion. Yes, we plan to sort files over date and name ascending and descending, as user want.

[sbierly]

Seconding this old feature request. It would be a trivial fix to sort like the printers do, most recent first, even if that's the ONLY thing you do. Adding fields and customizable sort sounds great, but let's not wait for elegant solutions, just please break this broken workflow.

[Prusa-Support]

@sbierly same as the other issue - #274 (comment).

There is a lot of work behind every single release and announced project.

We are aware of the current limitations so please bear with us while we are working on this.
For open discussions, please pay a visit to our forum.

Michele Moramarco
Prusa Research

[jpgleg]

I looked into whether I could send a pull request to add this feature, and found (some?) indications that it may already be supported, but gated behind a configuration variable: 80ca9a3

@voxelias or @ondratu: am I correct in my reading that we might be able to enable more file sorting options by removing the WITH_NAME_SORTING_ONLY environment variable? Are we able to set that in a config.ini file on the USB, or is this only able to be changed by running our own prusa-link-web frontend? Is it printer-specific or blocked on some other issue?

If there's an outline of what has to happen and it's solely a matter of developer cycles, I might be able to help with this, but I didn't want to put more effort in if there's known issues or this is blocked on work elsewhere.

Based on forum and Prusa-Firmware-Buddy¹ posts, it looks like Prusa Connect has this functionality, but I'm not interested in using a centralized/cloud-based management system: part of why I bought a Mk4 instead of a competitor was the ability to run ~everything locally.

@Prusa-Support If you're interested in consolidating issues for prioritization, I think at least this issue, Prusa-Link #819, Prusa-Firmware-Buddy #3087, and possibly Prusa-Link-Web #309 could all be merged and might be able to be closed by either improving the documentation around changing the WITH_NAME_SORTING_ONLY environment variable, or finishing any remaining work to remove the check?

Thank you!

Footnotes

1. brief aside: it's not clear to me as an end user when or why to use Prusa-Link-Web vs Prusa-Firmware-Buddy repositories, sorry if I'm in the wrong place! ↩

[PhilipWhiteside]

I made a browser script to do this for the Mini https://gist.github.com/PhilipWhiteside/8a60bcc6d48a91d50b1bae9e7120f8fa.

[danopernis]

Created #515 as soon as this gets merged I will be happy to update static Prusa Link assets in Buddy Firmware. There should really be no need to use browser scripts, especially when this is already implemented and only needs to be enabled at this point.