Re: Feature request: context menu column sorting

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 3 February 2010 12:22, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> Setting the background colour isn't the issue, it's adding an icon to
>> indicate the sort direction which is the most valuable indicator imho.
>>
>
> Yes, and when you pointed out that I could right-click a cell and
> select sorting options there, I found the sort I selected had no
> effect, due to the fact that the first column was sorted by default
> (probably because it's the primary key or something).  I consider this
> to be a gotcha.  And yes, it's not clear what the active filters are,
> or what order they are being applied in.  If there were some way to
> provide visual feedback on this, it would be helpful.  Maybe something
> like adding an extra textual row within the header to indicate the
> current filters and their order?
>
> Like:
>
> id         name              age
> int        varchar(64)      int
> asc(1)                        desc(2)
>
> Although this isn't as elegant a solution as I'd want personally.

Yeah, we'd need to find something nicer than that. Those headers are
already taller than I like.

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Dave Page
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