Re[4]: threding/sorting interaction (bug 870)

Am Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:10:56 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) schrieb (Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]>):
> MJ> Sorting be size to do cleaning up may be also a point.
>  Ah, so this is why. Do you really need this often?

No, not very often. But see below.
 
> MJ> There was also a suggestion to simply switch threading (temporarily)
> MJ> off, when sorting by date or size.
> 
>  But you'd still need to re-change the sort order before turning it back
> on?

Sure enough. But changing the sort order and cirteria can be done by just clicking the column.
Switching threading on and off needs the contex-menu on the header.
So I tend to forget switching threading on again - normally I have threading on.
 (Yes, I try to have my cake _and_ eat it ;-)

So maybe the simplest thing would be a way to switch threading on/off with
just one mouse-click _and_ having a visual clue if it is on or off.

Something along the line Xavier suggested:
> Another idea could be to have for possibilities for sorting by date:in one way or the other, threaded or not.  Using e.g. two triangles
> in the colums header (instead of one) could indicate the 'threaded'
> version of the sorting order.

So if you have sort ascending, threading on
Mouse-Click # ... gives
1 -> Reverse sort-order, keep threading => descending, threading on
2 -> Keep sort-order, toggle threading => descending, threading off
3 -> Reverse sort-order, toggle threading => ascending, threading on
4 -> Same sort-order, toggle threading => ascending, threading on (as at the start)

What about using a sort of tree symbol to show threading on; no tree symbol if off.

Martin - hoping to come to a decision this time....







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