it’s so confusing that the order changes when adding IDENTICAL strings to BOTH filenames. Is this really how it’s supposed to be?

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    6 days ago

    If a person was ordering them, they would do it in numerical order. Despite these being numbers, the computer is still ordering in alphabetical order.

    Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

    I note that your season and episode start with 0 as well (S01E05), in order to ensure the alphabetical ordering works. Perhaps you should use 5.0 to solve this in the same way.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

      I’m so glad KDE Dolphin has a “natutal sorting” option. Not sure about this specific case, but I have never been surprised by the order with that setting.

      Would be interesting to check the code behind it.