A good example of the need to sort alphabetically, and not numerically. I store a lot of bank statements in a folder. They have names like this:
20090215_monthly_statement.pdf 200903_first_quarter_summary.pdf 20090315_monthly_statement.pdf 20090415_monthly_statement.pdf 20090515_monthly_statement.pdf 200906_second_quarter_summary.pdf 20090615_monthly_statement.pdf The current numerically-focused sorting algorithm places the summary statements at the top of the list, followed by all of the monthly statements. It's not what I would have wanted. But I also see that this is a heated issue. So I have found a work-around, which is to insert dashes in the filenames, like this: 2009-02-15_monthly_statement.pdf 2009-03_first_quarter_summary.pdf 2009-03-15_monthly_statement.pdf 2009-04-15_monthly_statement.pdf 2009-05-15_monthly_statement.pdf 2009-06_second_quarter_summary.pdf 2009-06-15_monthly_statement.pdf These filename are sorted in date order, as one would expect. I also have similar problems with photos, which might live in folders with names like these: 2010-04-25_maker_faire 2010-04_easter 2010-04_new_york 2010-04_spring_outing 2010-05 2010-05-09_mothers_day 2010-05-30_jordan_lake 2010-05_shuttle_launch Again, the dashes do cause the directories to be sorted into proper numerical / alphabetical / date order. Without them, the events that span several days (like the May shuttle launch) appear before the events on a particular day (like Maker Faire in April). I do hope that you guys can come to an agreement without alienating each other. Alan Porter -- sort order of files listings in nautilus is not alphabetical https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
