Re: How to "unsort"

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Mar 16, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Perry Smith <pedzsan () gmail com> wrote:

> I’ve seen one application where each click cycles through “sort up”, “sort down”, and “sort off” (but I can’t recall 
> where).  Wireshark already has “sort up” and “sort down” and cycles back to “sort up”.

Where did you see the behavior you describe?  What application, and what OS/GUI (Windows, OS X, GNOME, KDE, etc.)?  I 
see the same behavior as Wireshark in OS X's Mail application, for example.

> The other thought is the menu that right click pops up, turn off sort could be there but that doesn’t seem like a 
> good design.

Well, at least in OS X's Mail, control+click/right click on a column heading pops up a menu that includes a "Sort By" 
menu that offers a set of fields and a section with "Ascending" and "Descending" - it could offer "None" in the set of 
fields (it doesn't, but it could).

I guess if you have a set of data that doesn't have a "natural" sort order, it's not clear what "None" would do; OS X 
Mail doesn't use mbox format, it uses a flavor of maildir (each message in a separate file), so "in the order the 
messages appear in the mailbox" isn't available as a "natural" sort order, but in Wireshark there's a single file and 
"in the order they appear in the file", which is equivalent to "ascending by frame number", is the "natural" sort order.
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