List Orders

Henry Stanaland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.look
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is something I've wondered for years: Why do computers use such a dumb
way of alphabetizing?  i.e. why do the following files get listed like this:

image1.jpg
image10.jpg
image11.jpg
image2.jpg
image22.jpg
image25.jpg
image8.jpg
image9.jpg

I know generally this is how you would want to do this, but couldn't we find a
couple of pattern matching algorithms where most of the time you would get 
this:

image1.jpg
image2.jpg
image8.jpg
image9.jpg
image10.jpg
image11.jpg
image22.jpg
image25.jpg

I know this is not *really* KDE, but Qt, which is designed to copy windows...
but we can always add functionality by subclassing Qt methods(pretend
I know what I'm talking about...I've been using Java lately).  I could see
tremendous benefits by such a simple thing.  Like my Cervisia "Log" is
totally a waste because there no order to it (1.1   1.10   1.11   1.2   1.3   
1.4....)


Henry
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