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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Add global option to turn off "natural sorting"
From:       "Peter Penz" <peter.penz () gmx ! at>
Date:       2009-08-23 19:45:33
Message-ID: 20090823194533.9127.62290 () localhost
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If there are no objections, I'd submit the updated patch on Monday evening.

- Peter


On 2009-08-19 12:01:10, Peter Penz wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-08-19 12:01:10)
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Summary
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> Corresponding to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169883 some people like to \
> disable the "natural sorting" (http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort) of user \
> visible strings in Dolphin, Konqueror, the file dialog, ... so that instead of: 
> image 1.jpg
> image 2.jpg
> image 10.jpg
> image 11.jpg
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> (= natural sorting)
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> strings are sorted by their unicode values like when doing an ls:
> image 10.jpg
> image 11.jpg
> image 1.jpg
> image 2.jpg
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> This makes sense especially if people have named their directories and files before \
> "natural sorting" was default (it got default since KDE 4.0). In opposite to other \
> sort properties like "Ascending", "Folder First", "By Name|Size|Date|..." I don't \
> see this as a property that can be remembered per directory, but as a global \
> setting. I also doubt that the majority of our users care about turning off the \
> "natural sorting" ("natural sorting" is default on Windows since XP and also \
> default on Mac OS X's Finder); so I'd prefer _not_ offering a menu entry checkbox \
> "[x] Natural Sorting" beside the other sorting properties as I'm sure only ver less \
> people know what "natural sorting" means. Instead I'd like to add an advanced UI \
> option in the Dolphin settings dialog or a kcm module that adjusts this global \
> setting (the location of the UI option has not been decided yet, I'd first need the \
> OK that a global setting makes sense for everybody). Any opinions? 
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> This addresses bug 169883.
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169883
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> Diffs
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> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/kernel/kglobalsettings.h 1012603 
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/kernel/kglobalsettings.cpp 1012603 
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kfile/kdirsortfilterproxymodel.h 1012603 
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kfile/kdirsortfilterproxymodel.cpp 1012603 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1350/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested with temporary (?) settings code in Dolphin.
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> Thanks,
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> Peter
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