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From: Andy Mender <andymenderunix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 06:19:52
Message-Id: CAHVfhucLmCdfCqi3rML++jrpER-QpNnJVyJTzGB8=m-kiVNBEQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order by "J. Roeleveld"
1 >All digits are taken into account, but not as digits. This is a lexical
2 >sort based on characters, not numbers.
3
4 I think Neil Bothwick is right. Also, sorry for the joke earlier. I just
5 found it ironic that the file sorting in KDE 5 suddenly borked itself
6 and resembled file sorting in Windows in that respect.
7
8 Unless there is an explicit option somewhere in KDE 5 to choose
9 sorting mode or it's mentioned in some changelogs why sorting
10 was altered, I would file a bug report.
11
12 Best regards,
13 Andy
14
15 On 20 October 2016 at 22:04, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
16
17 > On Thursday, October 20, 2016 08:25:22 AM Philip Webb wrote:
18 > > Using Gwenview with KDE 4, the thumbnail view showed images
19 > > in correct numerical order : image1 image2 ... image9 image10 ... .
20 > > With KDE 5, it's gone stupid : image1 image11 image12 ...
21 > > image 19 image2 image20 image21 ...
22 > >
23 > > Is there a setting anywhere
24 > > to tell it to list files in the proper numerical order ?
25 >
26 > Are you sure it was showing them in numerical order?
27 > And not sorted based on timestamp?
28 >
29 > --
30 > Joost
31 >
32 >