Wrong sorting order in file managers of Fedora 20

[Roger]

On 27/10/14 07:48, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am running Fedora 20 x86_64 with all updates.
>
> These days I am, among many other things, reordering old family 
> pictures scanned in several occasions, by different people.
>
> So I have folders with many, many files named like:
>
> 196511-holidays-1.jpg
> 1968summer.jpg
> 1961-july-15-birthday.jpg
>
> and so on. The problem is that, while the files are obviously sorted 
> correctly at the prompt when I do ls -l, this does NOT happen in any 
> GUI application I've tried so far: nautilus, gwenview, dolphin... They 
> all couldn't care less that I DO tell them to "sort by name". They 
> keep showing the pictures in some other, NOT alphanumerical order, as 
> in the example above. Which makes it very time consuming to catalog 
> the pictures, of course, but above all makes me wonder if there is 
> something wrong going on.
>
> I've seen around some bug reports of the same "class", like 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169883, but this seems a more 
> serious issue. My file names all start with the 4-digits year, so I 
> can't see how or why a file manager should not sort them correctly by 
> "name".
>
> Any clue? Thanks!
>
> Marco
>

Marco
I remember this. It's a Fedora and Ubuntu problem.  Going back a lot of 
years, I was using slideshow to create a 25 minute sequence of >200 
slides, slide and transition times to tenths of a second, with music for 
dvd.

The only way I found was to have folders: a_somename, aa_somename, 
b_somename, c_somename and so on and in the folders name the images 
0001.jpg, to 0009.jpg then 0010.jpg to 0019.jpg and so on, so the 
folders sort on the first letter and the contained images sort numerically.
This way I could re order the slide images by renumbering or putting an 
a or b in the file name 0009a.jpg and 0009b.jpg

Don't know if that helps but it's the only way I could find to sequence 
images in a folder and sequence folders by name. I then created a 
spreadsheet with all the folders and images in the above sequence with 
the proper name of the file in an adjoining column.
Messy but very effective.

Roger