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

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:37:18 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 03:53 +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:38:04 -0400
> > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 20:59 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, 18. July 2006 02:50, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > Surely you aren't saying every GNOME user on FreeBSD has to put up with 
> > > > case-sensitively sorted lists? Isn't there at least a gconf key I could 
> > > > modify or something? :(
> > > 
> > > GConf is outside of GTK+, but there's no such key of which I am aware.
> > > As I said, I recall this problem being tied to LC_COLLATE, and thus
> > > nothing that can be easily done.
> > 
> > The attached glib20 patch copes with the FreeBSD libc deficiencies (no
> > collation for wide char locales, see BUGS in wcscoll(3)) by using
> > devel/icu for string collation. If there are no objections I'll add it.
> 
> I'm a bit worried about introducing a non-standard dependency to glib20
> (i.e. this is broken on ia64).  What about making this optional for
> those that want it?  

Maybe I can add it for ${ARCH} != "ia64"?

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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