From: Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...> - 2010-06-07 17:10:11
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On Jun 7, 2010, at 17:37, Brennon Bortz wrote: > On 7 Jun 2010, at 15:58, Stuart Andrews wrote: > >> Could the sorting be performed using the note's page number as the >> primary key, and the note's color as a secondary sort key? > There's no way to tell Skim about this choice. It will require more clutter and/or much more non-intuitive interface. Not an option. > I must heartily second this, especially after finagling (yes, it's a word...) around with HSBA value-based sorting for a while. I went through a document, adding one degree to the hue value of each successive highlight. This actually didn't create the correct sort order, but I found that if I increased the "step size" of the incrementation to about five degrees, I could come up with the correct order. > As I said, it uses 8-bits components for comparison, so ranges of 0-255. I don't know what you mean by "one degree". >> On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> Which is very much what was said about why the color sorting is a >>> really useful and necessary function. So you apparently agree with >>> me on principle. > > You're an excellent spin doctor--there's certainly a job for you in American politics if developing doesn't work out for you. ;) I actually don't agree on any level, precisely because of what I described above. I'm using a feature for something other than it's intended purpose, and it's become the proverbial square block that I'm trying to fit into the round hole. Custom-ordering, by any "non-hackish" means, would be helpful to quite a few people, I'd venture to guess. > I think you did not understand I was talking about the principles on which requests are granted or rejected, not this particular feature. You think your feature is very important. Some other user thinks color sorting is very important. Etc. Basically on similar grounds and with similar arguments. I have to make choices for ALL users. The long argument is somewhere in the archives of this list. > I'm not interested in a long back and forth either, though. I'm happy to say it again: ultimately, I'm enjoying Skim, and it's your call at the end of the day. I'm happy to work around anything that I may see as shortcomings. Thanks again! > > Best, > Brennon > You're welcome. Chriostiaan |