Re: [Nautilus-list] Sorting Directories First

[Pavel Cisler <pavel eazel com>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> Josh Barrow <josh eazel com> writes:
> 
> > John,
> >
> > Yes it is.  Open a Nautilus window -> View -> Layout items -> by Type
> >
> > There isn't a way to do this for every folder, but it works for individual
> > folders, and is stored in that folders metadata, so it's like that
> > everytime you enter that folder.
> >
> 
> I think the specific request is to list directories first, but
> alphabetical within directories, and sort all the other files
> alphabetically after that. "Layout by Type" breaks down
> non-directories by type as well.
> 
> Another thing I'd like to see is to have capital letters sort ahead of
> all lowercase letters (or at least an option to do this) because many
> Unix file naming conventions are based on the assumption that capital
> letters sort first (README, ChangeLog, INSTALL, etc).
> 

I dunno about this one. Sorting should be based on the sorting rules of a given
locale, not on the ASCII values of the letters. The fact that it sorts the way
you describe in Unix is arguably sloppiness.

Pavel