Re: [Nautilus-list] Sorting Directories First

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Pavel Cisler <pavel eazel com> writes:

> 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.
> 

This is unhelpful to me when I unpack a source tarball and there are
files named INSTALL and README and NEWS and ChangeLog that I want to
see quickly. The existence of Nautilus is not going to make people
stop shipping directories that are layed out this way. And it will
probably be a while before source packages ship with Nautilus
metadata.

Nautilus needs to help users work with their existing files in
addition to paving the way to better ways of doing things.

 Maciej