[Design][Last call] triage list view - sorting

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Jeffrey,

I believe the email I just sent to the list will address some of your  
concerns. The LATER section should be sorted in a different way from  
DONE. Anyway, you can read the most recent email and let me know if  
you still have questions...

Mimi

On May 9, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Mimi,
>
>> [Hi Bryan, Please comment on how likely it is that we can fix the  
>> 2 bugs
>> mentioned below for Preview if we were to up their priority.]
>>
>> *Bug: I'd like to nominate this as a 'Prevents dogfooding' bug.*
>> + When importing an .ics file: Triage items to the DONE by the  
>> date that
>> appears in the Date column
>> - Nice to have: For DONE - Event items, show the Event start-date  
>> in the
>> Date column, even if there is a custom alarm date.
>> + When subscribing to a shared collection where Triage Status is  
>> *not*
>> shared: Triage items to the DONE section by the date that appears in
>> the Date column
>> - If Triage status is shared, the subscriber should inherit the  
>> triage
>> status sort order from the publisher.
>
> I had a hard time parsing this section.  Does this restatement match
> what you're asking for?
>
> =======
> When importing an .ics file or subscribing for the first time to a
> collection where triage-status isn't shared, set DONE items
> triageStatusChanged attribute (the attribute that controls sorting
> within a section) so that older events are sorted later.
> =======
>
> It seems to me this is the desirable behavior for items in LATER, too,
> not just DONE; if the initial sort order was going to be random or
> arbitrary, it'd be nice for all newly imported items to be sorted  
> based
> on the relevant date, not which item we happened to import first,  
> which
> is what happens now.
>
> Usually there aren't very many NOW events in any given .ics file or
> collection, but I suppose the sort for those few NOW events would
> ideally be the reverse of DONE, events in progress that start earlier
> appear higher on the list?
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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