181607 - size<->name swap in filepicker hurts usability

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 180023

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[haferfrost]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021117
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021117

I've observed that in Mozilla 1.3's file picker (e.g. File/Open File) the order
of the file name and file size field has changed. The file name used to be the
left-most field but now there's the file size. This causes the file names to
float freely in the middle of the file picker Window without some form of visual
guide for the eyes to align with. As directories have no size there is a huge
empty gap to the left of them. 
It takes me at least second to get my bearings in the new filepicker and
navigating this way is very unpleasant and tiresome for me. This is IMHO a
*serious* usability regression and it should be fixed asap (can someone tell me
what I have to change in the source code to fix this myself).

BTW, I'm not aware of having ever seen a file picker on any platform that had
the filenames floating in the middle of a pane like this, so this is also an
issue of following widely-used standards that people are used to.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select File/Open File

Actual Results:  
Filepicker comes up with Size field as left-most field.

Expected Results:  
Filepicker should come up with Name field as left-most field.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "columns reordered in trees"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180023 ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

verified dup.