Re: Sorting order for filenames

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

Ole Laursen wrote:
> ...
> Now, it turns out that the problem can be fixed by making a custom
> collate key generation function (instead of using g_utf8_collate_key).
> I've made one that fixes both the above problem with dots and also
> sorts numbers better, e.g. as
>
>   file1.txt 
>   file2.txt 
>   file10.txt 
>
> The algorithm sorts files with small basenames before files with large
> basenames and small numbers before large ones. The cleanest solution
> seems to be to put the function in glib, but it was suggested in the
> above bug report that I asked here first for comments on the sorting
> algorithm.
> ...

I'm not a Nautilus developer, but that sorting looks pretty cool to me. 
Well done. (I wish Apache did the same thing in its directory listings.)

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Matthew Thomas
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