I think that this demonstrates why it should be user defined...
Everyone has different needs/desires as to the "correct"/best order of the
columns...
On May 18, 2010, at 8:30 PM, zombie67 wrote:
> Can I please suggest this instead?
>
>> #define COLUMN_PROJECT 0
>> #define COLUMN_PROGRESS 1
>> #define COLUMN_CPUTIME 2
>> #define COLUMN_TOCOMPLETION 3
>> #define COLUMN_REPORTDEADLINE 4
>> #define COLUMN_STATUS 5
>> #define COLUMN_APPLICATION 6
>> #define COLUMN_NAME 7
>
> Status is way more important to know a glance, than app or name.
>
> Heck, if I worked at it, I might even be able to justify making it #0.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
>
>
> On May 18, 2010, at 3:14 PM, David Anderson 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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