Re: [Usability] alphabetic sorting of dynamic content

[German Poo Caaman~o <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

El lun, 01-05-2006 a las 21:06 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:22 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > On 5/1/06, Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
> > > I've noticed that the gnome 2.14 window list panel thingy now sorts
> > > the list of windows alphabetically instead of (previously) in some
> > > other order, I think creation date.
> > 
> > Mapping order, yes...and it is still the order used; I have no idea
> > why you would observe otherwise. 
> 
> Is that also true for bookmarks in epiphany? Mine are sorted
> alphabetically :( with no obvious way to drag them around to
> put them in the proper (for me) order.

In my ideal world, the items should be ordered by importance.
Probably should happen the same in your ideal world.  
Sadly, we don't live in our ideal worlds, because in those 
ideal worlds is required an extra attribute for each item
which doesn't exists in the real world (something similar 
to the 'rating' attribute in songs).

In the real world, it is easy to find people who renames
their items putting two or three extra letters in the 
beginning of the file name.  Something like:

A-mother's letters
A-brother's pages
B-australian info
...
a-this is not so important
...
etc.  

Because in that way they can order their application by
the importance that have each item, cheating the application
that order alphabetically (evolution's folders, bookmarks, 
nautilus' directories and files, etc.)

Even I found my self renaming a folder in my evolution's
mail to force the order.  I put a letter z in front of the
name because it was the less important folder and sadly the
name started with 'c' (with no chance to find another name
with some meaning) and originally it was located in the 4th
position between a lot of folders.

Regards,

-- 
Germán Poó Caamaño
http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/
Concepción - Chile