Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> ...
>>> I changed the dividers for resizing from sunken to raised, because  
>>> drag-handles are usualy and should be raised. Guess that's a theming 
>>> thing, though.
>>
>> That's an interesting idea, though it might make drag-and-drop column
>> rearrangement less obvious, because the columns would look glued  
>> together.
>
> This made me check if you can rearrange columns via drag and drop.
> You can't. At least not in Nautilus.

Wow, I'd never noticed that before either. :-) You can in Evolution, 
though. Reported: <http:/bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411757>

Though now that I look at Evolution's implementation, it's pretty nasty.
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365385>
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411768>
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411787>

> ...
> I think changing the order of columns would be the best way to
> communicate the sequence of multiple sorting. All other ways I can
> think of require more complex graphics.
> ...

That's assuming that displaying the secondary sort order is necessary. 
I don't think it is (none of the software I've seen that supports 
secondary sort displays it). And tying sort order to column order would 
be pretty annoying.

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/

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