On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 00:42, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18-Sep-2002/19:47 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Uhm, except that the Unix filesystem is NOT case-insensitive. The > >restriction is not in the file dialog, but rather the file system. > > I think he just wants the sort order to be case insensitive.
Oh. > > As a long time Linux user, I have gotten used to case sensitive sorting. > It always takes me a few seconds longer to find things in the few apps > that use case insensitive sorting. Yea, same here. > > Anyway, I think the sort order is built into the GNOME file dialog. > Changing this might involve forking the relevant GNOME library. IMHO, it's > not worth it. It's actually part of Gtk+ (gtk_file_selection_dialog) > > It would be better to try to get the GNOME folks to add this as a config > option. The 'gmc' and 'mc' file managers have this option. Unfortunately, there's no place to have the config file to store this preference. It can't be stored in gconf because Gtk+ can't depend on gconf. You also need a place to change this UI config option... Then again, I'm not gonna be spending any spare cycles on this so I don't much care about the issues :-) /me shuts up now. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
