Hi, I recently discovered that filenames are sorted incorrectly when using a locale. For instance, you get the sorting
event.C eventgenerator.C eventgenerator.h event.h both in the file selector and in Nautilus, even in the en_US locale. I've reported a bug in GTK+: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172690 Now, it turns out that the problem can be fixed by making a custom collate key generation function (instead of using g_utf8_collate_key). I've made one that fixes both the above problem with dots and also sorts numbers better, e.g. as file1.txt file2.txt file10.txt The algorithm sorts files with small basenames before files with large basenames and small numbers before large ones. The cleanest solution seems to be to put the function in glib, but it was suggested in the above bug report that I asked here first for comments on the sorting algorithm. An implementation of the algorithm as a patch for GTK+ 2.6 for testing purposes is attached to the bug report. So what do you think? Please keep the CC as I'm not subscribed to the list, -- Ole Laursen http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/ -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
