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Hello, everyone.
Guys, maybe any of you encountered with that problem in Thunar... especially if you use cyrillic letters in file or folder names.
I have the latest version of Thunar (1.4.0) installed, and it turns out it incorrectly sorts contents of folders.
I can not even understand the way Thunar sorts contents of any folder.
Here is the contents of one folder "sorted" by name (ascending).
Looking from top to bottom I see file names starting with...
cyrillic upper letters
digits
cyrillic lower letters
again digits
again cyrillic lower letters
english lower letters
and again cyrillic lower letters
Concrete example of another folder "sorted" by name:
голубь.txt
иволга.txt
аист.txt
орёл.txt
сова.txtAbsoluletly wrong order. The file with name that starts with 'A' is in the middle.
Cyrillic alpabet is:
Аа Бб Вв Гг Дд Ее Ёё Жж Зз Ии Йй Кк Лл Мм Нн Оо Пп Рр Сс Тт Уу Фф Хх Цц Чч Шш Щщ ЬЬ Ыы ЪЪ Ээ Юю Яя
Meanwhile
ls -1gives right order
аист.txt
голубь.txt
иволга.txt
орёл.txt
сова.txtPCManFM and other filemanagers give right sort order.
So, Thunar DOES NOT sort with 'ls'. Also, sort order of Thunar CAN NOT be changed using LC_COLLATE.
Thunar uses its own "mega-wise" algorithm.
P.S.
By the way, before version 1.4.0, everything was OK in Thunar. So one day their devs decided to make some "improvements".
Last edited by BrainWorker (2012-08-14 02:28:35)
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Perhaps file a bug report upstream?
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Perhaps file a bug report upstream?
I am just curious maybe somebody already encountered this situation and knows how to fix that...
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Definitely sounds like a bug that should be reported.
EDIT:
There is already a bug report open.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7110
You should look and see if you have anything to add to the discussion there and perhaps ask on their IRC channel.
Last edited by AaronBP (2012-08-13 14:49:03)
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Definitely sounds like a bug that should be reported.
EDIT:
There is already a bug report open.https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7110
You should look and see if you have anything to add to the discussion there and perhaps ask on their IRC channel.
Thank you.
I registered and added new comment there.
Interesting how do they notice my comment - it's not new bug report but a comment to the report already opened long time ago...
And, yes, I do not really know how bugzilla really works...
Last edited by BrainWorker (2012-08-14 02:39:08)
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For those who are interested...
My new bug report
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9218
Last edited by BrainWorker (2012-08-15 05:49:38)
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They notice because they are in the CC list. Whenever a new comment comes in they get an email. You should not open a new bug if there's already one open about it.
Last edited by AaronBP (2012-08-15 15:18:49)
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They notice because they are in the CC list. Whenever a new comment comes in they get an email. You should not open a new bug if there's already one open about it.
I don't really care if they are going to complain about it or not. My goal is to make them pay attention to this bug, because I think it is nicely forgotten.
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AaronBP wrote:They notice because they are in the CC list. Whenever a new comment comes in they get an email. You should not open a new bug if there's already one open about it.
I don't really care if they are going to complain about it or not. My goal is to make them pay attention to this bug, because I think it is nicely forgotten.
This is open source, bro. You can't make anybody do anything, but you might encourage some admin to ban you if you willfully break rules. If you can't break open the source and fix the problem yourself (which is surely the most speedy solution!), you're better off following community procedures and being as helpful as possible. Otherwise you'll just be excluded and ignored.
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