In Konsole I see folders and files alphabetically but I want the traditional view of folders first (above files).
I searched the web but this simple question remains unsolved.

this is not a KDE issue, it is a Linux one as you are using the Linux command ls

replace (alias) your ls command with

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ls --group-directories-first

google01103 wrote:this is not a KDE issue, it is a Linux one as you are using the Linux command ls

replace (alias) your ls command with

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ls --group-directories-first

I made a .bash_aliases file with

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alias ls=ls --group-directories-first

but it must be conflicting with this in .bashrc:

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export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'   
    alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'

because the sorting is still alphabetic and the colors are gone now.
Thanks for pointing out that it's not a KDE-issue; I'll do some better homework on aliases first and see if I can get it sorted.

EDIT: even though it's not sortde out, I wanted to mark Solved since it's not a KDE-issue.
When I clicked the mark Solved best answer button though, I got a pop-up about some image-site - happened 3 times... will try again later to see if the pop-up is persistent

lazylew wrote:I made a .bash_aliases file with

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alias ls=ls --group-directories-first

You have to use quotes around the command string because it contains a space.
Also, if you want to retain colourfull output you should add $LS_OPTIONS as well, just like .bashrc does:

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alias ls='ls --group-directories-first $LS_OPTIONS'

Or just add "--group-directories-first" to the $LS_OPTIONS variable in .bashrc:

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export LS_OPTIONS='--group-directories-first --color=auto'

thank you both very much

(the solved marking worked this time too)