[Thunar-dev] [solved] Order of files for humans

[Mike Massonnet]

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:06:42 +0200 - David Tenser <djst.mozilla at gmail.com>
wrote :

> David Courtney wrote:
> >>  MiscCaseSensitive should be the default if you're aiming for
> >> usability. No human being expects 'Death' to be sorted before
> >> 'birth'.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I utilize the "Death before birth" sorting method.  Important
> > directories start with a capital letter, unimportant directories
> > start with a lower case letter.  Keeps the important stuff up top.
> >
> >   
> Absolutely, I don't doubt some people find this sorting useful. But I 
> strongly suggest MiscCaseSensitive should be the default, as it's
> more usable for most people by far.
> 

  I know one useful case, when I am inside a project folder, I have all
the important files listed first: README, TODO, ...  Otherwise, well, I
never make use of this, and I just dislike it when I'm browsing images.

> / David


Here are my 2 cents :)
Mike
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