Re: [Nautilus-list] Sorting Directories First

[Manuel Clos <llanero jazzfree com>]

Pavel Cisler wrote:
> 
> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >
> > Pavel Cisler <pavel eazel com> writes:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > Perhaps it should not be the only mode but it would be very useful to
> > have it be an available mode because of the way existing things are
> > layed out. I suspect ls may have code to list files with capitals
> > first but using locale collating rules by now, which we could look at.
> 
> Nautilus is not ls. Overloading file names to make them more prominent is pretty
> tweaky. Systems that have file managers like Nautilus use more preferable means
> of making files more prominent, such as giving them a distinct icon and distinct
> placement in a folder icon view - check out for instance any installation CD on
> the Mac.
> 
> Pavel

I like the way ls does it. I like to be able to put some items at the
top of a list
by just capitalizing a letter, it is very useful to me. I think a lot of
users like
it, so it would be good to have an option to get this behaviour.

I know you are good experts at UI, but changing the way people uses to
work may cause
trouble to them, and then they won't feel good with the UI, no matter
how good it is.

User is always right (even when he/she is wrong).

-- 
Manuel Clos,
llanero jazzfree com

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