[maemo-developers] AppMenu, Filters and HIG

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Hello again :)

To not make the other threads more cluttered as they are already, here's
a new one.

I'm trying to another window fully conform to the Fremantle HIG, but I'm
not sure that I understand the paragraph on Filters:
http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/hig/html/ch04s02.html

The window is a window to select a particular note from a list. The list
has two columns: The title of the note and the date when it was last
changed.
Using a simple GtkTreeView it is displayed with a header row which
offers sorting, this means the list can be sorted in four ways:
- Sort By Title Ascending
- Sort By Title Descending
- Sort By Date Ascending
- Sort By Date Descending

Here is a screenshot of this window:
http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/search_window.png

As you can see, I could probably display one more note, if I would
remove the header row. If I read about Filters it sounds like I
could/should use them for this purpose because in the documentation I
read "... For example, sorting alphabetically a list of contacts ...".

I tried putting those four sorting options into a filter, but it doesn't
work because the filters are shown in one row and the strings are just
too long for that. This would be the result:
http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/search_window_with_long_filters.png

I know that Filters are supposed to work like this, therefore I would
like to get some insight on what the appropriate way is to handle this
situation.

1) Keep the header row and not use Filters at all?
2) Remove one column, so that only one column is left?
3) Use filters, but different?
4) Something completely different?

I know this is getting tiresome, but if I put time into the UI now, I
want that it doesn't look out of place later.

Thanks!
Conny

P.S. Removing the word "By" doesn't help much ;)