I reply here only to the technical observations (assuming I'm the troll, I avoid feeding myself...).
> the right way in my opinion to have it is by adding a new gconf key retaining > current sorting behaviour by default, but > *not* adding a new UI element in the nautilus preferences dialog. That would be more than enough, I rarely use gconf-editor and it did not come to my mind. It's the equivalent of the "Advanced" tab I proposed above. > Please note that lexicographical ordering is hard nevertheless in the UTF-8 world. I'm not a gnome developer, but since the coders managed to implement such complicated sorting rules like the current ones, that are full of exceptions, I assume they are also able to code a much simpler method that uses only a subset of those rules, right? -- sort order of files listings in nautilus is not alphabetical https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
