Use natural sorting order in left navigation area

[ckuenzle]

Currently, groups are shown in an alphabetical order. If the group names contain multi-digit numbers of varying length, the resulting order looks like this:

• group_0
• group_1
• group_10
• group_100
• group_1000
• group_1001
• group_1002
• group_1003
• group_1004
• group_1005
• group_1006
• group_1007
• group_1008
• group_1009
• group_101
• group_1010

To get a more intuitive order, I suggest using the natural sort order, treating multi-digit numbers atomically:

• group_0
• group_1
• group_2
• group_3
• group_4
• group_5
• group_6
• group_7
• group_8
• group_9
• group_10
• group_11

[axelboc]

Hi @ckuenzle, we don't perform any sorting; we respect the order of the entities as they are stored in the HDF5 file. So my recommendation would be to look at the tool that creates your HDF5 files.

[ckuenzle]

@axelboc Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware of that. In that case, my suggestion for enhancement is to introduce the possibility to sort the groups and datasets in the navigation area (of course using the natural sort order😀).