How to change the sort order in gtk2/gnome file dialogs?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 01:45 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> I've been using GIMP for a while now (in KDE), and I finally tried to work out 
> how to get the file dialogs to use a sane sorting order, but, unfortunately 
> failed.
> 
> The environment has LANG set to de_DE.ISO8859-15, but the sort order in those 
> dialogs always remains [0-9][A-Z][a-z], i.e. as if LANG were C. Most 
> suggestions I got from Google and others involved using the glibc LC_* 
> environment variables, which of course do nothing on FreeBSD. Do you have any 
> suggestions? All this scrolling up and down between filenames starting with 
> uppercase and lowercase gets a little tiring. :)

This was discussed a while back as I recall, and the conclusion was that
since FreeBSD didn't honor LC_COLLATE, that there was no way to change
the sort order.  I may be wrong on the conclusion, but you could try
hunting down LC_COLLATE in the archive, and see what comes up.

Joe

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