[lubuntu-users] PCManFM hidden files/dirs

[Aere Greenway]

Jerry:

It's okay to have different preferences.  I personally like being 
different.

It sounds like I would like Caja better as well, but it's not a big 
enough deal for me to want to change.

Where Caja does it differently, their code probably substitutes their 
own lexical comparison routine, as certainly can be done.

With the default lexical comparison routines, the hidden folders (and 
hidden files) come first only because a period (.) comes before any 
letter or digit in the 'alphabetical order' of the character set.

In the e-mail I sent last, the table may not have appeared in table form 
without the e-mail being viewed in HTML form.

- Aere


On 06/23/2016 10:46 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote:
> I think in the end, I'll just have to either install a file manager that I'm comfortable with, or change distributions. I was just hoping to understand the reason why PCManFM sorts the way it does so that maybe I could see the benefit of it. But, so far that's just not happening.
>
> For instance, if I have hidden files made visible, in my home directory I have .folders first, then regular folders, then .files, and then regular files; that is going from top to bottom.
>
>
> So, from top to bottom I see:
>
> hidden folders
> normal folders
> hidden files
> normal files
>
> In Caja it's just the opposite:
> normal folders
> hidden folders
> normal files
> hidden files
>
> I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I seem to be more comfortable with Caja'a sorting order. I'll just learn to get used to it, there must be a logical benefit that I'm not seeing.


-- 
Sincerely,
Aere