[Thunar-dev] sorting

[Benedikt Meurer]

samuel verstraete wrote:
> Yesterday i was working a bit with MS windows and the file chooser of
> Excel... I was browsing to a folder with following subdirectories :
> sim1, sim2, ... sim10, sim11, sim12,....
> 
> in Windows explorer and the file choser this becomes :
> folder
> |-sim1
> |-sim2
> |-sim3
> |-sim4
> |-sim5
> |-sim6
> |-sim7
> |-sim8
> |-sim9
> |-sim10
> |-sim11
> |-sim12
> 
> in Thunar this would become :
> |-sim1
> |-sim10
> |-sim11
> |-sim12
> |-sim2
> |-sim3
> |-sim4
> |-sim5
> |-sim6
> |-sim7
> |-sim8
> |-sim9
> 
> which is of course correct but still counter intuitive...
> while messing around with that it seemed that gtkfilechooser is also
> sorting these folders like windows explorer... so incorrect but
> completely intuitive...

GtkFileChooser uses g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename[1] to generate
appropriate collation keys for files. Thunar currently uses a simple
strcmp() on the display names, which is very efficient. Generating
collation keys first would certainly add overhead. Dunno if it's really
worth the overhead.

> gr,S.

Benedikt

[1]
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Unicode-Manipulation.html#g-utf8-collate-key-for-filename