Review Request 126467: Add Case Sensitive Sorting to Dolphin

[arnav dhamija]

> On Jan. 7, 2016, 7:03 a.m., arnav dhamija wrote:
> > Ship It!

Sorry for this it was by accident as I wasn't sure what this button was for. If I find a way to delete the Ship request, I will.


- arnav


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On Jan. 7, 2016, 7:02 a.m., arnav dhamija wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 7, 2016, 7:02 a.m.)
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> Review request for Dolphin, KDE Usability and Emmanuel Pescosta.
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> Bugs: 148550
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148550
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> Repository: dolphin
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> Description
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> See also: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112330/
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> This patch was redone because of the transition to KF5.
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> This patch adds an option for case sensitive sorting in Dolphin under General Settings by updating the Case Sensitivity of the QCollator in kfileitemmodel.cpp as with the user's selection. Much of what I have done has been based off the code for the Natural Sorting option.
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> However I have made a few observations of the results:
> 1) Toggling the Natural Sorting or the Case Sensitive Sorting checkbox in General Settings will not update the sorting of the files in a directory until Dolphin is restarted (I guess this is a bug?).
> 2) If Natural Sorting AND Case Sensitive Sorting are enabled together, Dolphin will sort the files in Natural Sorting using Case Insensitive mode. This is probably a bug on my part - so I would be glad to have a more experienced programmer take a look at it.
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> After some thinking, if Case Sensitive Sorting and Natural Sorting cannot play well together, we can reorganise the General Settings option menu as follows:
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> <CheckBox>Enable Extra Sorting Features
>         <RadioButton>Natural Sorting
>         <RadioButton>Case Sensitive Sorting
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> An example of this can be seen in the screenshot attached with this review request.
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> EDIT: it was suggested in the comments to use 3 radio buttons for the sorting options as all 3 are mutually exclusive. This change is reflected in the 2nd screenshot (on Unity Ubuntu 15.10. Finally, I used an Enum to switch between the 3 sorting modes and updated the KConfig file accordingly.
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> EDIT2: Bumping this for another review and whether it is ready to be shipped.
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> Diffs
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>   kitemviews/kfileitemmodel.h 167f508 
>   kitemviews/kfileitemmodel.cpp 5f6fed0 
>   settings/dolphin_generalsettings.kcfg 9ff14d1 
>   settings/general/behaviorsettingspage.h 6e49169 
>   settings/general/behaviorsettingspage.cpp 093a1f4 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126467/diff/
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> Testing
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> manual
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> File Attachments
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> Idea for Dolphin General Settings behavior tab
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/23/d8e9eab1-1c9e-4cac-84e6-11ad10c077e9__dolphin_settings.png
> Screenshot from 2015-12-23 22-21-24.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/23/a04136b1-b7fa-45c4-a2ec-a8d8fd3e8625__Screenshot_from_2015-12-23_22-21-24.png
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> Thanks,
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> arnav dhamija
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