Re: [Back on]: [RFC] Adding sort parameter



On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 11:30 +0100, Juan A. Suárez Romero wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 16:11 +0000, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > - Right now, in this preliminary version there is no way of telling if
> > > we want ascending or descending order. Jamendo plugin is implementing
> > > ascending order, and seems a good idea to specify it.
> > 
> > Ascending/descending options is a non optional to me (is it for
> > someone ?).
> 
> What is a must for me is that applications can be able to sort by some
> key. For instance, sort by title, or artist name, or other key.
> 
> But to be honest, almost all applications I see so far sorts the result
> ascending. So I don't know if we must allow applications to specify the
> ordering. My opinion is that we should design our sorting mechanism
> allowing this kind of specification.

I'm pretty sure sort by name is used in both ways, so you can find a
given file easily.
Also I use a lot sorting by date (with most recent being the most
interesting), which I see more as a descending order.

Regards,

--
Lionel



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