On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 22:52 +0200, Mat M wrote: > Hello, > > Le Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:33:13 +0200, Kohei Yoshida > <kohei.yosh...@collabora.com> a écrit: > > > In Calc, you can go to Data -> Sort, and choose to copy the sorted > > results to someplace else, rather than the default option of sorting in > > place. > > > > I'm just wondering if anyone would miss this feature if it got removed. > > > > The UI is a bit awkward, and not clear what the associated two fields > > (left drop-down and right input fields) are supposed to take. > > > > Also, handling this option internally would require quite some extra > > effort, which, when one is trying to fix issues associted with this, > > would pose a greater risk of breaking things. > > > > Any objections for removing this? > > > > Kohei > > Could we (well, huh, you ?) just copy the data first, then sort them > in-place ? It will preserve the feature without causing effort to > maintain. And we may even soften the UI by adding some labels to boxes.
That's what we do today. However, that would be a pain (really pain) to support when you think of undo and redo, plus supporting reference update that's been requested for so many years. So, no. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
