Re: [Usability] alphabetic sorting of dynamic content

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:29 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
> > 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.

Actually it's no longer true -- CVS HEAD uses alphabetical sorting based
on the user's locale.

Vincent and Fred Crozat confirmed this on IRC, and see also gnome
bug 171804, in which this sorted behaviour was requested, and lack
of it reported as a bug.

Maybe a context menu option to sort the list would be better?

Liam

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