Re: [Engine-devel] Sorting in tabs

note that at some point, I think that we would want to introduce paging also to search- based sub-tabs - it will be useful especially for sub-tabs that potentially display a large number of results (e.g. Disks sub-tab in Storage main tab). In addition, at some point, we would want to get rid of the paging UI as it is now (i.e. "next"/"prev" buttons at the top panel) and move to paging triggered by scroll (i.e. have a very long grid, dynamically loaded as you continue to scroll - similar to the behavior of some e-mail web-clients, for example). In this case, sorting on the client side will make no sense at all (i.e. from the user perspective, only a portion of a very large grid will be sorted, the other portions won't be). So for now - yes, I think it makes sense to introduce your mechanism to all sub-tabs, however in the long-term - we would probably want the search-based sub-tabs (which will support paging) to move to search-based sorting, rather than GUI-based-sorting. BTW (maybe the other GUI maintainers can help me with that one) - what about sub-tabs that are not search-based (i.e. display results from a "regular" query or even from a field within the selected item in the main grid, e.g. Applications in VM) - are these managed via SearchableListModel as well? since the comparator mechanism *is* relevant for them. Also: Worth mentioning "Bug 893999 - webadmin: please allow column sorting", which requests to enable sorting when clicking on a grid-column header; when implementing column-sorting, probably worth attaching your mechanism to it somehow (i.e. clicking on a column header should set the relevant comparator in the relevant SearchableListModel). yes, and related to what I mentioned above - at some point in the future, we'd might want to block it for search-based sub-tabs as well.