Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

[Frode Petersen]

> ... and they'd *still* come out in filename (or possibly date) order
> and not the order I want.
> 

You're absolutely right! I should have read the message more thoroughly. 
I thought you had two sequences of images and wanted to choose one or 
the other of each pair (i.e. 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A...)

I haven't been able to find a way to do what you describe, short of 
copying the images into a new album and renaming them. One would think 
that manual sorting was a natural thing to do when creating galleries or 
presentations, but there was no such thing in those plugins either.

gThumb is supposed to be able to use manual sorting, but that option was 
grayed out in the menu on this system.

Maybe there is a separate app for handling slideshows and galleries 
geared a bit more towards pro photography that could have sort of a 
virtual lightbox?

Frode