Who sorts the printer model names?

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Nov 7 17:45:51 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:37 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I couldn't find my LaserJet 6L in the list of HP printers
> the first time I tried to setup a printer on FC6 because
> I scrolled down through a bunch of HP model names till
> I noticed I'd reached a chunk of LaserJet entries
> and I see I'm at "LaserJet 1015", obviously
> "LaserJet 6L" is after that, isn't it?

Well, '6L' seems like a smaller model number than '1015' to me, so I
would expect '6L' to come before '1015' just like I'd expect '250' to
come before it as well.  The models are sorted with numeric portions
compared as numbers.

Tim.
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