I don't. I want string sorting to be string sorting. Filenames are strings.

I wouldn't mind if there was an option to tell the file manager to do this "wrangle numbers out of strings and treat them as numbers" thing--so that I could turn that option off, and others who want that behavior could turn it on.

But for this to be the default, without even a way to change it (except in Dolphin, it looks like)? That seems daft to me.

Btw, I use Trinity Desktop, and I just verified that in TDE's version of Konqueror, the sorting of filenames is the same as for ls on the command line, e.g., 'item-10.txt' comes before 'item-9.txt'. Another good reason for me not to have switched to a more "modern" desktop.

> The author's situation is extremely rare

I don't think it is. But that's really beside the point. The computer is my tool. If it doesn't do what I want or expect it to do, it's a bad tool for me. And designers of tools shouldn't be making assumptions about how I want to use it. They should be giving me ways to tune it to how I want to use it.

> "mind-reading" is really helpful in ways we take for granted, like autosave.

I don't use autosave either. I don't want the computer to assume when I want to save a file. The computer is too stupid to know that.