Review Request: Add global option to turn off "natural sorting" of user visible strings.

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Aug 18 07:39:39 BST 2009


Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>EW5YP
>5GH67I
>62DH13
>6IF732
>6KW84W
>74UZGI
>7FDM86
>8CFUQR
>U4H3WM
>10AH2MF

What's natural about the sorting above?

Sorry, but there's just no way we can detect the sorting order that the 
user wanted if it's not decimal numeric and alphabetical.

I would consider myself a power user and I've never had any files with 
hexadecimal numbering in them. 

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