Hello. Lately I’ve been trying the new feature "new desktop" for version 2024a which introduced the dark theme. I am really enjoying it, however I am going through an issue which is quite critical for my work.

With earlier versions, sorting variables in the workspace always prioritized alphabetical order, sorting by the first letter of the variable name regardless if it was uppercase or lower (e.g. the variables were sorted as a… – A… – b… – B…).

In the "new desktop" mode (not sure if it’s actually introduced entirely in 2024a [edit: I checked this and it does not happen in standard 2024a]), the sorting appears to be different, prioritizing the capitalized letter and only after sorting by the lowercase letters (so A… – B… – a… – b…).

This is actually a huge dealbreaker for me, as my work is strongly related to the old feature and I cannot simply adapt to it. I tried to look into the preferences but I couldn’t manage to find an option to bring back the legacy feature. Is there a way to go back to the previous workspace sorting order? It would be a shame to downgrade to the previous Matlab release since I’m enjoying the new one, but I’ll be forced to do it if I can’t solve this issue. Thank you.Hello. Lately I’ve been trying the new feature "new desktop" for version 2024a which introduced the dark theme. I am really enjoying it, however I am going through an issue which is quite critical for my work.

With earlier versions, sorting variables in the workspace always prioritized alphabetical order, sorting by the first letter of the variable name regardless if it was uppercase or lower (e.g. the variables were sorted as a… – A… – b… – B…).

In the "new desktop" mode (not sure if it’s actually introduced entirely in 2024a [edit: I checked this and it does not happen in standard 2024a]), the sorting appears to be different, prioritizing the capitalized letter and only after sorting by the lowercase letters (so A… – B… – a… – b…).

This is actually a huge dealbreaker for me, as my work is strongly related to the old feature and I cannot simply adapt to it. I tried to look into the preferences but I couldn’t manage to find an option to bring back the legacy feature. Is there a way to go back to the previous workspace sorting order? It would be a shame to downgrade to the previous Matlab release since I’m enjoying the new one, but I’ll be forced to do it if I can’t solve this issue. Thank you. Hello. Lately I’ve been trying the new feature "new desktop" for version 2024a which introduced the dark theme. I am really enjoying it, however I am going through an issue which is quite critical for my work.

With earlier versions, sorting variables in the workspace always prioritized alphabetical order, sorting by the first letter of the variable name regardless if it was uppercase or lower (e.g. the variables were sorted as a… – A… – b… – B…).

In the "new desktop" mode (not sure if it’s actually introduced entirely in 2024a [edit: I checked this and it does not happen in standard 2024a]), the sorting appears to be different, prioritizing the capitalized letter and only after sorting by the lowercase letters (so A… – B… – a… – b…).

This is actually a huge dealbreaker for me, as my work is strongly related to the old feature and I cannot simply adapt to it. I tried to look into the preferences but I couldn’t manage to find an option to bring back the legacy feature. Is there a way to go back to the previous workspace sorting order? It would be a shame to downgrade to the previous Matlab release since I’m enjoying the new one, but I’ll be forced to do it if I can’t solve this issue. Thank you. workspace, variables, sort MATLAB Answers — New Questions

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