3. Sort lists in various browsers, such as bundles, packages, and protocols. There's no point in having long lists that aren't sorted.
Alan Knight--They are sorted. Note that bundles sort before packages in that list. In the protocol list the order is determined by the developer. Some people are very fussy about the exact order of protocols, and that's generally not a long list.
- Diane Savereide - Within a bundle, packages are listed in their load order. So if you edit bundle specifications, that's the same order that appears in the browser.
- Bruce Samuelson - Alan has mentioned how some developers want control over the ordering of the protocol list. Diane has mentioned how packages are listed in load order within a bundle. These were the examples I had in mind when requesting sorting in alphabetical order. I revise my suggestion as follows: offer the user the option of displaying lists in their user-prescribed order, which for protocols and packages would be the orders described by Alan and Diane, or in ascending or descending alphabetic order. The package browser, at least for 5i1, is very slow in the way it displays, scrolls and refreshes the package list. If you've got a long list, it can take a long time to find the desired package. Having an alphabetic ordering would help.