GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603246
Fix sort order in Group Settings
Last modified: 2010-01-30 14:54:10 UTC
System->Adminstration->Users and Groups->Manage Groups Notice the list is not sorted alphabetically. Since the only thing shown in the table is the name of the group I believe it should be sorted alphabetically. Case insensitive. Originally filed in Launchpad for Ubuntu: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/477324
Sure, should be easy to do. I'll try to fix that for the next release.
Milan, another option that was commented on in IRC was a "Sort by" feature..
Well, "sort by" would require 1) to show a GID column to click on, or 2) to add a popup menu allowing this choice. I'm not sure that's worth the pain. Did the reporter have a valuable use case for this? I don't think people will often search groups by GID, especially if they use users-admin. I'd prefer spending this work on more needed features.
Chris I agree with Milan, lets keep it simple and have just have it sorted by group name.
If a GID column was introduced then I would probably think the user might want to sort or all columns and therefore sorting on GID will be possible.
I've just pushed a fix so that groups are sorted by login now. Additionally, you can search groups by typing their login on the tree view. So I mark this as fixed, and if somebody wants to implement the GID column (easy) *and* has a good use case for this, he'll open a new report.