thunar + mountpoints + sort by name and case

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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I'm sure I shouldn't touch this, at the risk of starting a minor
flamewar, but hey, I have at least a little karma to burn, and it's
2:45am and I have nothing better to do...

Joe Klemmer wrote:

> 	They are supposed to be sorted first.  The proper sort order for a *NIX
> based system is - 
[...]

Well, I'd argue the proper sort order for any system is... whatever the
user is most comfortable with.  This comfort may be due to past
experience, or just due to a different way of thinking.  Doesn't make
either way right or wrong, and it's rather arrogant and pompous to look
down on people who like one way or the other, for whatever reason.  Not
saying I don't act like an arrogant, pompous bastard at times, of course.

Personally, I don't care to remember if I named a file starting with a
capital letter or lowercase letter.  Why should I have to do the work a
computer can do for me?  Just because someone decided that, numerically,
all the capitals would come before all the lowercase letters, doesn't
mean I should suffer.

	-b

P.S. On a side note, apparently some locales (on unix) have their
collation set such that the character class [A-Z] actually includes all
capitals, and all lowercase letters except 'z'.  In these cases, [A-Z]
means AaBbCc...XxYyZ.  I'm not sure why this is relevant to this
discussion, but I was just reading about this yesterday, I thought it
was interesting, and it popped into my mind.

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