On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 00:42, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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