Al Le wrote:
Well, we're currently using an "existing" algorithm. One that *may*
be used in other FLOSS (I don't know, and haven't investigated). To
me, the two sides of the argument are basically "do we want to use it
as-is, such that our sorted lists look the same as lists in other
applications, or do we want to define our own rules for 'natural'
list sorting?"
I'd opt for the latter, because it's easy to understand.
"It sorts in this strange way we've made up" is easier to understand
than "It sorts like Nautilus, FileBrowserX and FileBrowserY which you
may already use?"
