[rox-users] Re: Filer sort-by-name problem

[Brandin C. <cha...@ya...>]

--- Gert <gel...@gm...> wrote:

> Anthony DiSante <orders <at> nodivisions.com> writes:
> > 200311xx-cat-photos
> > 20010305-something-else
> > 20020925-another-dir
> > 20031101-it-should-be-here-ish
> > 
> > The ls command doesn't sort that way; it sorts per-character
> 
> I do have the same problem. Is there a solution or a fix for this yet?

Here is a simple patch to address this. But, the mentioned behavior should be
runtime-configurable in my opinion. The problem is that the "numeric sort"
behavior of ROX-Filer and others will sort a list such as (file9.txt
file10.txt file11.txt) in the numeric 9,10,11 order. But "ls" sorts it this
way:

    file10.txt
    file11.txt
    file9.txt

But for the "dates" example above, you don't want that, and you prefer "ls"
(naive) sorting behavior. Besides, some people prefer that sorting anyway and
they just take care to add in leading zeros for the "file" example above.
Both sorting strategies sort (file09.txt file10.txt file11.txt) in the same
way.

Grab the source archive, extract, and cd into the directory

  tar xvf rox-2.4.1.tgz
  cd rox-2.4.1

Then patch and run the installation/compilation script:

  patch -Np1 -i ../rox-2.4.1-always_alpha_sort.patch &&
  CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DALWAYS_ALPHA_SORT" ./install.sh --compile



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