thunar + mountpoints + sort by name and case

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Thu Jul 13 20:54:50 CEST 2006


Erika Meier schreef:
> Am Donnerstag, den 13.07.2006, 04:45 -0400 schrieb Joe Klemmer:
>> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 00:19 +0200, Erika Meier wrote:
>>
>>> Also is it possible to ignore case when sorting files/directories by
>>> name? Because I find it very disturbing  when HELLO.txt is sorted in
>>> before another_filename.txt.
>> 	Heh, I had to spend some time fighting with a few non-xfce apps to get
>> them to sort in the proper *NIX way of being case sensitive.  I guess
>> coming from the broken MS world people aren't used to having correct
>> sorting.  If you are running a version of Fedora Core then default is
>> case insensitive.  What distro are you using?
> I am using Gentoo. In my Case its not about proper sorting but about
> being able ti find a file of which I do not know if I used a capital
> letter or a lowercase to be the first of the name... its just so much
> easier...
> 

Yeah, I'd say UNIX was technically right, but logically wrong in this 
case ;-)

	Jasper




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