Listing order in the browser view should be case-sensitive

[Christian Boos]

I just noticed that now, but shouldn't the sort on file names and directory names be done in a case sensitive way?

This is what the ls command does, on UNIX but also in Windows using cygwin.

The change would be trivial to make, but I open this ticket for discussing the topic.

[Christopher Lenz]

I don't agree. If we'd model our sorting to match that used by ls, we'd also not put folders on top, and we surely wouldn't do “natural order” sorting (see #1714).

I consider case-sensitive ordering a limitation instead of a feature. It's closer to the machine model than to the human model.

If we want to compare the Trac repository browser to other tools, we should rather at GUI tools such as the Windows Explorer or the Mac OS X Finder.

[Christian Boos]

It's closer to the machine model than to the human model.

Hm, no: as a human, you certainly don't mix upper case and lower case arbitrarily. At least I don't. I mix them iff there's a semantic difference, e.g.

• ProjectA
• ProjectB
• tools
• resources
• …

No wonder Windows Explorer doesn't do it that way, case sensitive behavior is not its strong point…

But Konqueror does it the way I described, although it doesn't supporting the natural sort order (I checked v3.1.4, so maybe that's a bit old).