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[Feature Request]: Universal editable sorting title
Description
I think the "Sorting title", which is now only available for games with Japanese titles (as far as I know) should be activated for all titles, and it should be customizable.
Reason
It would allow people to customize the order of the games in their library in a pretty simple way while still displaying the official title. For example personally I prefer to have my japanese games display their title in japanese, but I'd prefer if they were sorted as if their title was romanized. Other series incur into problems due to the usage of roman numerals (IX being placed before VIII for example), or the inconsistent naming of their entries (R&C "3" is placed before "2" because the former has no numeral in its official title)
Examples
Popular ebook library software Calibre does this:
Both the title and the author have a secondary field to sort the books by.
The sort field can be used with any language, not just Japanese.
You can also override the title with the custom properties in ini.
The sort field can be used with any language, not just Japanese.
If I right-click and choose "properties" of any western game I don't see the "Sorting title" field at all, and in Japanese games it can't be changed. Other than that I'm not sure what you're talking about.
You can also override the title with the custom properties in ini.
That seems like a bit of a cumbersome way to solve this problem. There's already a "Sorting title" filed in the property, why not take advantage of that?
If I right-click and choose "properties" of any western game I don't see the "Sorting title" field at all, and in Japanese games it can't be changed.
Because those games don't have sort fields in the GameDB. Doesn't mean you can't add it.
That seems like a bit of a cumbersome way to solve this problem. There's already a "Sorting title" filed in the property, why not take advantage of that?
Because custom properties only has title, not sort-title. I don't really see the need to allow overriding the sort title, when you could just change the title.
Because custom properties only has title, not sort-title. I don't really see the need to allow overriding the sort title, when you could just change the title.
I explained why I think it should be done in the request with examples, and mentioned and showed a very popular piece of software that provides such a feature. Offering simple customization options to the users is clearly a concern since you can edit the "Title" field to begin with, otherwise you could just tell people to change the name of the file. I'm simply making a case for something I would find useful. If you disagree then I don't really see the point in replying further just to insist on your indifference, or to keep vaguely addressing a more complicated way that you don't bother to elaborate properly on.
There's a degree at which customization becomes both a burden on the maintainers, since the complexity of the code blows out, and from a user's perspective, overload in the UI. That's why we can't accommodate every niche feature request.
I'm happy to leave it open if someone finds a way to implement it in a way that doesn't make the UI more cluttered, but in the meantime, there are alternatives.