[opensuse-kde] Faulty Sort Order in Konqueror
I have a lot of old time radio files on my computer. They get downloaded as a series of files and then I try to put them in order to play or copy them to a folder. I have a problem with the sort order this gives. If I have a series of files with episode numbers in them Konqueror insists on sorting them like this Episode 1 Episode 11 Episode 111 Episode 2 They SHOULD be sorted like this Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 11 Episode 111 I know Suse Linux and Konqueror aren't alone in this erroneous sorting method but there needs to be a way to make files sort correctly without having to go and rename them. I understand this form of sorting is called alphabetic sorting, but to me the next number in the sequence after 1 should be 2, not 11. Anything else is just WRONG. It makes a lot of extra work in organiing playlists, etc. Thanks, Bob. -- Bob Smits bob@rsmits.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
This is a known issue which will be fixed in KDE 4 (Dolphin). I am not sure if there are plans to fix it in 3.5.X series of KDE. On Thursday 28 June 2007 15:49, Robert Smits wrote:
I have a lot of old time radio files on my computer. They get downloaded as a series of files and then I try to put them in order to play or copy them to a folder. I have a problem with the sort order this gives.
If I have a series of files with episode numbers in them Konqueror insists on sorting them like this
Episode 1 Episode 11 Episode 111 Episode 2
They SHOULD be sorted like this
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 11 Episode 111
I know Suse Linux and Konqueror aren't alone in this erroneous sorting method but there needs to be a way to make files sort correctly without having to go and rename them. I understand this form of sorting is called alphabetic sorting, but to me the next number in the sequence after 1 should be 2, not 11. Anything else is just WRONG. It makes a lot of extra work in organiing playlists, etc.
Thanks, Bob.
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Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2007 00:49 schrieb Robert Smits:
I have a lot of old time radio files on my computer. They get downloaded as a series of files and then I try to put them in order to play or copy them to a folder. I have a problem with the sort order this gives.
If I have a series of files with episode numbers in them Konqueror insists on sorting them like this
Episode 1 Episode 11 Episode 111 Episode 2
They SHOULD be sorted like this
Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 11 Episode 111
I know Suse Linux and Konqueror aren't alone in this erroneous sorting method but there needs to be a way to make files sort correctly without having to go and rename them. I understand this form of sorting is called alphabetic sorting, but to me the next number in the sequence after 1 should be 2, not 11. Anything else is just WRONG. It makes a lot of extra work in organiing playlists, etc.
Thanks, Bob. Hi,
as the konqueror does not do it: If you store the names in a file, you could process it on the command line like: %: cat foolist | sort -n -k 1 -k 2 Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 11 Episode 111 And then you can copy the files or do what you want, sort -n does a numerical sort. I think -k 1/-k2 is not required, but the system hasa another opinion :-)) . Regards Hugo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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