On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 07:46, Peter Ruskin wrote: > KDE file sorting. I like to see traditional UNIX file sorting, like > .X .a X a > ...but I've never been able to make that setting stick in konqueror. > It's an old KDE bug (reported) that goes back to KDE 2.0 but nobody > bothers to fix. However, now we have a Mandrake KDE bug that sorts > a .b W .X Y > ...which is _very_ annoying.
Been there, dealt with that. It's a locales issue, and at a level lower than KDE. If you log in to the command line, you'll see the same behavior. If you unset the LC_* and LANG variables, then the sorting will be the "traditional" way. My guess is that it is done this way to be nicer to people moving from Windows, where W and w are considered equivalent. Initially (in the cooker time-frame before 8.0), I just zeroed out the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file. However, I seem to remember that messed with my font sizes in Gnome apps I ran. So, I made changes to /etc/profile to not run /etc/profile.d/*lang.sh, and then went into /etc/X11 and commented out lines in Xsession and prefdm that sourced in the /etc/profile.d/*lang.sh file. Logged in again, and all was well. It's been a while so I may not remember everything I did, but now my sorting is "traditional". Of course, this is English specific. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger
