On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Petko <pditc...@gmail.com> wrote: > First a few notes : > 1. The feature in question is very old ,and a lot of people have their way > around it . > 2. Inheriting the info from 1. -> I'm not quite sure how many people (old > as they may be) have a problem with the feature. What is our representative > sample ? >
It would be interesting to have some user testing to see how average people use the sort feature and where they struggle (if they do). - Can they sort files in Nautilus by date. - Can they "fix" a mail app that sorts by-subject instead of by-date (find a mail send on [date]...). - Do they understand the functionality of the sort button (one button - two functionalities: 1. Select the column that should be sorted. 2. The sort direction). On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com>wrote: > Before picking up the feature scythe, I suggest trying a less drastic > fix. Ubuntu's default theme makes hardly any distinction between the > sorted column and other columns. If the sorted column and column > header were highlighted, that you had changed the sort order would be > more obvious, and how to change it back would also be more obvious. > Visualizing the current column & sort direction more clearly could be a solution. Maybe adding a monochrome arrow before the column name (a bigger one than the one Nautilus uses) and change the background color to a more lighter color (maybe a very light orange would be okay too) to indicate that column [column name] is currently the selected one to sort the content.
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