On 17 May 2009, at 13:58, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
Also, the language "natural" order is very strange, does the GNOME
HIG mean
"logical" order? There should never be a table that isn't sorted in
some way.
Usually a good default is the first column is increasing by default
unless
there is a better column to sort by.
"Logical" is probably a little better than "natural"; the main point
the HIG is trying to convey here is that it doesn't always mean
"increasing". E.g. sorting a checkbox column, the goal is really to
group the items in the list such that (usually) all the checked items
come first, then all the unchecked columns. There isn't really any
"increasing" or "decreasing" order.
(In such cases, there may well be a secondary sort key, such that the
checked 'group' is sorted alphabetically, then the unchecked group,
but the user doesn't normally have direct control over that...)
Cheeri,
Calum.
--
CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:[email protected] OpenSolaris Desktop Team
http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771
Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
_______________________________________________
Usability mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
