Dear Devs,
Currently, the 'Files' sidebar sorts file alphabetically, but GTK's 'open' dialog sorts the naturally.
Files tab: File_1.ext File_10.ext File_100.ext File_11.ext File_2.ext
GTK Open dialog: File_1.ext File_2.ext File_10.ext File_11.ext File_100.ext
I don't know if this would be an easy fix, but it would help me a lot!
Cheers!
-H-
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:58:15 +0100 Harold Aling h.aling@home.nl wrote:
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GTK Open dialog: File_1.ext File_2.ext File_10.ext File_11.ext File_100.ext
I don't know if this would be an easy fix, but it would help me a lot!
I think we should do this. Probably a related issue is using case-insensitive sorting as well. I think there may be a function in GLib for sorting filenames that does this, but I can't seem to find it right now. I might look at this in the next few weeks, but if anyone wants to beat me to it, go ahead ;-)
Regards, Nick
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:01:34 +0000, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:58:15 +0100 Harold Aling h.aling@home.nl wrote:
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GTK Open dialog: File_1.ext File_2.ext File_10.ext File_11.ext File_100.ext
I don't know if this would be an easy fix, but it would help me a lot!
I think we should do this. Probably a related issue is using case-insensitive sorting as well. I think there may be a function in GLib for sorting filenames that does this, but I can't seem to find it
I think GLib(or maybe GTK not completely sure) sorts file lists automatically. At least, if I start a GTK app on my system it uses the German locale and when I open a GTK file open dialog, files are listed case-insensitive, i.e. I get a list of k.file M.file n.file O.file p.file If I start the same app with the C locale(LANG=C app) the file open dialog lists the files sorted by case: M.file O.file k.file n.file p.file
Maybe there is a GTK/GLib preference which can be set by the user in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. This isn't really related to the topic, I just wanted to mention it ;-).
By the way, if I remember correctly, "naturally" means in relation to file sorting the sorting files are actually saved on the disc, the "natural" sort. This is what you get when you read the contents of a directory. So, there is no need that files in a directory have any real sorting.
Regards, Enrico