Re: [Evolution] list sorting order (messages, folders etc.) in 1.5

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:33 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote: 
> Is there a way of changing the default list sorting order in 1.5 so that
> lists are sorted in a case-insensitive way? (probably a Gnome thing, but
> is there a way to override it?)
>
> For instance if I sort messages by sender, 'jxx' ends up miles away from
> 'Jxx' - and I don't have control over the sender names used for incoming
> messages, of course :-)  (same is true of my contacts where I've used
> the 'add to addressbook' unless I go changing case as necessary)

> I'm sure evo 1.4 did case-insensitive sorts. (I also remember having
> 'inbox' rather than 'Inbox' in 1.4 but can't see a way to change that in
> 1.5?)
>
> No big deal of course, just one of those little things that would be
> nice to be able to control.

Its based on your locale.  If it doesn't look right, move countries!

The en_* locales appear to do this, en_AU.UTF-8 does anyway.

> I'm actually of the opinion that Evo needs *way* more user-configurable
> stuff in it to be honest - Gnome seems to be such a total mess (and core
> behaviour changes with every release) that it reflects badly on Evo when
> the user has no control over a lot of settings (any plans for a KDE
> version of Evo? :)
You can't please everyone all of the time.

> cheers,
>
> Jules
>
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