How can I direct gnome-tweak-tool to list extensions alphabetically?

Question

On Ubuntu 11.10, using gnome-tweak-tool (3.2.0-0ubuntu1), I have great difficulty finding specific extensions. The ordering seems random.

I have looked and looked.. but I do not see any ordering options.

Is there a way to change the ordering to be alphabetic? Or by provider, perhaps?

Answer 1

I don't consider myself a pro python coder, so this may not be the most efficient way to go. In fact, I had to do some research for sorting because it's been a while since I've used python.

If you open /usr/share/pyshared/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell_extensions.py, and add the following import at the top of the file:

from operator import itemgetter

Then at the bottom of the script, modify the try block to sort extensions (around line 154):

        try:
             #add a tweak for each installed extension
             extensions = shell.list_extensions().values()
             for extension in sorted(extensions, key=itemgetter('name')):