On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:10:03 GMT, Loay Ghreeb <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Shift + Click again on Col2 to remove the sort from Col2. The order will stay 
> the same [1, 0, 3, 2], but the expected order is [1, 0, 2, 3] as in step 2.

Why is that the expected order?  It is "a" possible, but valid order.  When 
only sorting on `Col1` then in my opinion [1, 0, 2, 3], [1, 0, 3, 2], [1, 2, 0, 
3], etc.. are all valid sort orders.

If we want to distinguish between equal elements to give them a fixed 
sub-ordering (and the inverse one I suppose when the sort is descending) then 
what should the distinguishing factor be?  Its position in the underlying 
unsorted list?  The time it was added to the underlying list?  They need not be 
the same.  Using the position in the underlying list could be quite random if 
the source of the list doesn't guarantee a fixed position (from an unsorted 
database query for example).

What if the underlying list is another sorted list or a filtered list, can we 
even rely on the indices those provide?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1519#issuecomment-2281285791

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