On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:39:28PM +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > 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>
Oh, wow :) > > 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. The state of things should be communicated in a clear way, always. Every serious usability checklist will support that. Current implementations not doing so doesn't make that right. Why/How would tying sort order to column order be annoying? I think it is very natural to sort steps in a sequence, priorities, processing stages from left to right (well, reading direction for western world). -- Thorsten Wilms _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
