[Thunar-dev] Order of files for humans

[David Tenser]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Mathias Brodala wrote:
>   
>> Hello.
>>
>> I’d like to ask if Thunar is able to sort viewed files and directory in a more
>> useful manner somehow.
>>
>> At the moment, it sorts alphabetically, but first uppercase and after that
>> lowercase names. This results in two different orders.
>>
>> If I have three folders „Documents“, „downloads“ and „Images, then I expect
>> Thunar to display them in that order. But I get „Documents“, „Images“ and
>> „downloads“ instead, which is very irritating.
>>
>> This is one of the reasons for me still using Nautilus and I would be glad if
>> this could at least be set via an option.
>>     
>
> There is already an option, MiscCaseSensitive, which defaults to FALSE
> starting with RC1, but previously defaulted to TRUE, see
>
>  http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/thunar/trunk/docs/README.thunarrc
>
> Out of curiousity: How did you manage to get Nautilus to ignore the case
> when sorting? Because the funny thing about this is, that Thunar
> defaulted to TRUE for case-sensitive sort to match Nautilus' behavior,
> and atleast with 2.14 that still seems to be the default with no obvious
> way to change it.
>
>   
I'm an Ubuntu user, and Nautilus has never used case-sensitive sorting 
there. Not sure about vanilla Nautilus though, but if it defaults to 
case-sensitive sorting, I think that should change as well. I doubt it 
do though. All other major OSes (Windows, all flavors, and Mac OS) sort 
without case sensitivity.

/ David
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