On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:44:56PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: Can we collect this in the Wiki ? ;-)
> These would benefit from unification. Elements could > include a background item The basic idea of sorting could be transported by a stack of (3) pages overlapping each other. The first one would contain a few horizontal lines of different lengths signifying words printed on it. The visible overlap would contain the numbers 1-3 in order. This can often be seen in printing dialogs. > a foreground object specific to the type of sort. > some options could be ambiguous Something would need to be added to convey the sort *mode*: >>- by age (newest floats to the top) A symbolic calendar ? >>- by review status (unreviewed to the top) A checked checkbox ? Or some sort of stylized signature with question mark ? >>- by episode (IOW, problem) (alphabetically) > For the episodes, maybe some kind of branch-tree? > The "current" sort state might be denoted by a drop-shadow (four > "forms" per item"). The label of the root node includes the current sort mode :-) > Will documents default to any sort order? Will "unsorted" be a > possible state? No as this would result in a completely random "order": The documents are pulled from the database. One of the fundamental properties of a (relational) database (such as PostgreSQL) is that there is *no intrinsic order* to any set of rows from a table. Note that this random "order" could and *will* change from query to query. Eg. calling up the documents now and this afternoon is likely to produce *different* "orders" ... Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
