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

[Michael Klein]

OK, imagine a directory with hundrets or thousands of files with random
numbers as filenames and let's say they are all images. Let's say the first
one with the thunar-sorting is 31.jpg. But if i open it with a
picture-viewer app with the "normal" sortingit's not the first one, but
somewhere in the middle, because there are others like 101.jpg or even
2203.jpg before 31.jpg. So the problem is not the sorting itself, it's more
the difference between the two kinds of sorting.

I think it should be at least configurable, because nearly all other
file-managers (e.g. konqueror and nautilus) (and image-viewers like
qwenview, gqview, ... :) ) sort files the "non-thunar-way".

On Feb 2, 2008 6:02 AM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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