We'll look into this; it's a moderate-size development task.
-- David

Ed A wrote:
> Why not just make it user definable, and also allow us to make the huge
> "commands" area to the left much smaller?  This would really help on
> machines with low resolution screens.
> 
> Thanks/Ed
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> I agree.  I changed the order to
>>
>> #define COLUMN_PROJECT              0
>> #define COLUMN_PROGRESS             1
>> #define COLUMN_CPUTIME              2
>> #define COLUMN_TOCOMPLETION         3
>> #define COLUMN_REPORTDEADLINE       4
>> #define COLUMN_APPLICATION          5
>> #define COLUMN_NAME                 6
>> #define COLUMN_STATUS               7
>>
>> and also changed a couple of column titles
>> ("Time remaining" -> "Remaining",
>> "Report deadline" -> "Deadline")
>>
>> Loki Clock wrote:
>>> I request that the left-to-right order of the attribute lists be
>>> changed so that Name comes after Elapsed and Progress.
>>>
>>> One only rarely, in my experience, needs to check the name of an
>>> active process, but one should be able to periodically check the
>>> elapsed time and progress percentage without effort. The process name
>>> field is very long, and often items distinguishable from the most
>>> significant few digits, while the elapsed time and percentages are
>>> short. The application has not enabled dragging to change the order of
>>> the fields, so the order is important. The default size of the manager
>>> requires one to scroll horizontally to see the progress bars. There is
>>> no reason the window should need to take up more space than it does at
>>> said default size. If the process name were moved past them, one would
>>> still in most cases be able to identify the process from what one can
>>> see of it without scrolling and at the same time be able to
>>> conveniently check these constantly updating attributes.
>>>
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