[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#436524: thunar ignores LC_COLLATE?

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 06:21:42 UTC 2007


Hi,

Thunar uses some hidden options for the sorting.  In your file
~/.config/Thunar/thunarrc set MiscCaseSensitive to TRUE.  It has been
set by default to FALSE after a wishlist query in the bugzilla of Xfce
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2064.


Regards,
Mike

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:20:00PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Package: thunar
> Version: 0.8.0-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> The normal sort order for my locale appears to use case folding:
> 
>     $ with-temp-dir env -u LC_COLLATE bash
>     with-temp-dir: entering directory `/tmp/tmp.hAbJR22098'
>     $ touch .bzr README autogen.sh configure.ac src
>     $ locale
>     LANG=en_AU.utf8
>     LC_CTYPE="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_TIME="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_COLLATE="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_MONETARY="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_PAPER="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_NAME="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.utf8"
>     LC_ALL=
>     $ ls -1A
>     autogen.sh
>     .bzr
>     configure.ac
>     README
>     src
> 
> Since files beginning with an uppercase letter typically represent
> "important" files (e.g. README, COPYING), I override case folding by
> exporting LC_COLLATE=C.  This ensures they are listed first, bringing
> them to my attention:
> 
>     $ export LC_COLLATE=C
>     $ ls -1A
>     .bzr
>     README
>     autogen.sh
>     configure.ac
>     src
> 
> If I start thunar in this directory, it is immediately apparently that
> LC_COLLATE=C is being ignored; README is listed between configure.ac
> and src:
> 
>     $ thunar .
>     $ exit
>     with-temp-dir: leaving directory `/tmp/tmp.hAbJR22098'
> 



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