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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:47:56 -0500, Jean-Yves Lefort  
<jylefort at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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"?

I am agreeing with marcus, it is best to make it optional for anyone that  
want it because of non-standard.

Cheers,
Mezz


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