On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 17:53, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > 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. > You're absolutely right Lonnie. Thanks for that information and my apologies for falsely maligning Mandrake. What I do now is add the following lines to /etc/profile: export LANG=en_GB export LANGUAGE=en_GB:en export LC_MESSAGES=en_GB export LC_MONETARY=en_GB export LC_TIME=en_GB export LC_COLLATE=POSIX ... and then `locale` gives me: $ locale LANG=en_GB LC_CTYPE="en_GB" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB" LC_TIME=en_GB LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY=en_GB LC_MESSAGES=en_GB LC_PAPER="en_GB" LC_NAME="en_GB" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB" LC_ALL=
...and my sorting is in order again. -- Gentoo Linux (portage-2.0.28). KDE: 3.0.3 Qt: 3.0.5 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.19-win4lin. GCC 2.95.3 Linux user #275590 (http://counter.li.org/). up 1:45. #=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=#
