Can I please suggest this instead?
> #define COLUMN_PROJECT 0
> #define COLUMN_PROGRESS 1
> #define COLUMN_CPUTIME 2
> #define COLUMN_TOCOMPLETION 3
> #define COLUMN_REPORTDEADLINE 4
> #define COLUMN_STATUS 5
> #define COLUMN_APPLICATION 6
> #define COLUMN_NAME 7
Status is way more important to know a glance, than app or name.
Heck, if I worked at it, I might even be able to justify making it #0.
Thanks,
Erik
On May 18, 2010, at 3:14 PM, David Anderson wrote:
> I agree. I changed the order to
>
> #define COLUMN_PROJECT 0
> #define COLUMN_PROGRESS 1
> #define COLUMN_CPUTIME 2
> #define COLUMN_TOCOMPLETION 3
> #define COLUMN_REPORTDEADLINE 4
> #define COLUMN_APPLICATION 5
> #define COLUMN_NAME 6
> #define COLUMN_STATUS 7
>
> and also changed a couple of column titles
> ("Time remaining" -> "Remaining",
> "Report deadline" -> "Deadline")
>
> Loki Clock wrote:
>> I request that the left-to-right order of the attribute lists be
>> changed so that Name comes after Elapsed and Progress.
>>
>> One only rarely, in my experience, needs to check the name of an
>> active process, but one should be able to periodically check the
>> elapsed time and progress percentage without effort. The process name
>> field is very long, and often items distinguishable from the most
>> significant few digits, while the elapsed time and percentages are
>> short. The application has not enabled dragging to change the order of
>> the fields, so the order is important. The default size of the manager
>> requires one to scroll horizontally to see the progress bars. There is
>> no reason the window should need to take up more space than it does at
>> said default size. If the process name were moved past them, one would
>> still in most cases be able to identify the process from what one can
>> see of it without scrolling and at the same time be able to
>> conveniently check these constantly updating attributes.
>>
>
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