[Thunar-dev] Thunars way of sorting files by name with numbers as filenames

[Mike Massonnet]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 02:41:43PM +0100, Michael Klein wrote:
Hi Michael,

> Hallo,
> 
> this is my first post on this mailinglist.
> 
> I recently switched from KDE to the XFCE desktop environment and I really
> like it much better. But there is one thing which annoys me a bit. It's the
> way thunar handles the sorting of files with numbers as filenames. All
> file-managers i knew before sorted files (by name) like this:
> 
> 1
> 10
> 11
> 2
> 20
> 21
> 3
> ...

Like /bin/ls

> but thunar sorts them like this
> 
> 1
> 2
> ...
> 9
> 10
> 11
> ...

Like /bin/ls --sort=version

> which is really annoying for me. I checked if there is a way to change this
> behaviour, but seems like there is none. Would it be possible to add this
> sorting feature to thunar?

IMHO the latter, how Thunar shows the numbers, is the proper way to go.
Unless you argue more about why you want the first sorting type, I don't
think there is any purpose into adding it.

> Greets

mike