File sequences support

[David Faure]

On Friday 08 April 2005 20:46, Jaqui Greenlees wrote:
> Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > On April 8, 2005 18:22, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > 
> >>Windows has support for doing it the human way ( 10 > 2 ) style. But don't
> >>know the implementation details.
> > 
> > 
> > google for "natsort" (and "natsort -php" to get all the php docu out of the 
> > way to see implementations  in more useful (to KDE) languages such a C, Java, 
> > C++ and Python) ... it's rather trivial, but it means more sorting overhead 
> > when listing directories.
> > 
> maybe this should be included for default sort?
> to actually sort files with numerical sections in the name into 
> numerical order by default would enhanse user experience.

The "by default" is the arguable part here. Making directory listing slower
wouldn't *exactly* enhance user experience.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).