GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 41637
consider having a case-sensitive sort by name
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Since "ls" and almost every other way of viewing items in directories on Unix sorts case insensitive, people use capital letters to call out files like README. So we might need a case-insensitive sort by name to make people happy. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-07-12 16:38:48 ---- Correction to my typo. Since "ls" sorts case *sensitive* we might need a case sensitive sort. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-07-25 16:28:09 ---- Long time estimate to figure out the UI nuances this might cause. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 20:09:13 ---- Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com ------- Additional Comments From menthos@menthos.com 2001-01-09 14:17:19 ---- Hopefully only as an option? Always sorting case-sensitive otherwise breaks with the sorting rules specified in locales, because those rules are often indifferent to case. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-01-09 14:41:25 ---- Yes, the idea here is to have this as a "Sort by" options. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-02-21 11:14:04 ---- QA Assigning to brett. Sorry for the spam. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:11:45 ---- QA Assigning to self. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:33 -------
*** Bug 61245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The UI for this seems like more trouble than it's worth. IMO nautilus should either go by LOCALE, be strictly case-insensitive, or better yet, be case insensitive, but sort strings of numbers right-to-left (so 2 comes before 10).
I'm with ben on this one and think we should ignore case when at all possible/appropriate.
<aol>me too</aol>
i'm going to close this bug based on ben's, calum's and my opinion. You can achieve this effect by setting your locale to "C" i believe anyway.
Setting LC_COLLATE=C will suffice, no need to change the whole locale.