161020 Michael Mol wrote: > On 20 October 2016 at 14:25, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> Using Gwenview with KDE 4, the thumbnail view showed images >> in correct numerical order : image1 image2 ... image9 image10 ... . >> With KDE 5, it's gone stupid : image1 image11 image12 ... >> image 19 image2 image20 image21 ... >> Is there a setting anywhere >> to tell it to list files in the proper numerical order ? > On Thursday, October 20, 2016 03:27:34 PM Andy Mender wrote: >> You may be surprised, but this is the proper numerical order, >> the way Windows Explorer normally does it.
You must be joking (no smile). >> Only the 1st digit is taken into account as you noticed. >> Care to try renaming the images to "image_xxx"? Yes, I do care ! -- I could insert initial zeros, but it's a lot of work. > No, it's not the proper numerical order. Yes, it's the proper sort > for a sorting algorithm unaware that it's sorting strings > with numeric components, such as a one examining input > on a strictly codepoint-by-codepoint or character-by-character basis, > but that's not the only way to sort. I'd suggest filing a bug. > I don't know enough about collations to know > whether or not localization is supposed to cover numeric sorting, > but the old behavior was clearly better, from a human UI standpoint. I'll consider a bug. My impression of KDE 5 is favorable so far, so I would expect this is either configurable or an oversight. Anyone else know more ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
