Hi all, I just noticed that we have a really bad sorting of contacts and there is NO option to allow the user to customize this and I'm really surprised about that! at this moment, all contacts are sorted alphabetically but grouped by status... This looks to many people as if the list was sorted randomly and yes, it does look like that. you see, in my list, I see this : J - online P - online B - away K - away T - away V - away L - out to lunch
how does that look sorted to you ? it looks totally random to me. and I do think many users requested to have their list sorted without grouping the users by status. I found the offending code : in protocol.tcl, line 2695 : set list_users [lsort -increasing -command ::MSN::CompareState [lsort -increasing -command ::MSN::CompareNick [::MSN::getList FL]]] So this is how it works, we sort the list, increasing by nick, then sort it by status, increasing again. I think we should allow the user to specify if he wants his list sorted alphabetically ascending or descending (we already have an option in the 'View' menu for that, but it only applies to groups, not to contacts!!!!!) AND have an option on whether they should be sorted by status or not. The problem here is, how much the usability of the menus will get affected. Maybe Karel can help on this point since he's the HIG guy.. so what do you think ? how do you suggest that ? it's easy on the code, but it's not on the usability, which is why I'm writing this. I'll do the modifs and provide with some config keys for this, all that will remain is to allow a user to change that.. KKRT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
