(Sub)sort VMs by name

[andrewdavidwong]

VMs in Qubes VM Manager should be subsorted alphabetically by VM name by default.

The lists of VMs shown when using qvm-backup should always be sorted alphabetically by VM name.

[andrewdavidwong]

@marmarek: What do you think about dropping the "minor" label for this? Even with search in QM, lack of alphabetical subsorting makes it difficult to visually scan long lists of VMs. More importantly, lack of subsorting removes the user's control over how VMs are subsorted whenever sorting by a column other than "Name."

[andrewdavidwong]

@marmarek: What do you think about dropping the "minor" label for this? Even with search in QM, lack of alphabetical subsorting makes it difficult to visually scan long lists of VMs. More importantly, lack of subsorting removes the user's control over how VMs are subsorted whenever sorting by a column other than "Name."

[marmarek]

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[marmarek]

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[unman]

It's one of the stranger things in Qt that tables don't readily lend themselves to sorting by more than one key.

[unman]

It's one of the stranger things in Qt that tables don't readily lend themselves to sorting by more than one key.

[unman]

There is a workaround I've used in the past in simple cases like this - populate a hidden column with concatenated strings (SortCol + Name), and sort by that hidden column. Not at all elegant, but trivial to implement and works in current framework.
@marmarek - what do you think?

[unman]

There is a workaround I've used in the past in simple cases like this - populate a hidden column with concatenated strings (SortCol + Name), and sort by that hidden column. Not at all elegant, but trivial to implement and works in current framework.
@marmarek - what do you think?

[marmarek]

It would be better to have proper sub-sorting by name. For some columns it should be easy - see table_widgets.py - custom widgets do define __lt__ function, which currently fallback to qid comparision in case of values being equal. Actually, I can't find any column not listed there, so maybe adjusting all __lt__ functions there should be enough?

[marmarek]

It would be better to have proper sub-sorting by name. For some columns it should be easy - see table_widgets.py - custom widgets do define __lt__ function, which currently fallback to qid comparision in case of values being equal. Actually, I can't find any column not listed there, so maybe adjusting all __lt__ functions there should be enough?

[unman]

@andrewdavidwong Confirmed issue still arises in 3.2 milestone

[unman]

@andrewdavidwong Confirmed issue still arises in 3.2 milestone

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The package qubes-manager-4.0.19-1.fc25 has been pushed to the r4.0 testing repository for dom0.
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