188010 - ordering downloads by "Transferred" should be in numerical order, not alphanumeric order.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 472001

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Drew Devereux]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

When I order the list of downloads in the download manager on the "Transferred"
column, they are ordered in alphanumeric order e.g.

1044KB of 1044KB
104KB of 104KB
1052KB of 1052KB

This is counter-intuitive, and I would think not what was intended by anyone who
 attempts to order in this way.  Ordering should be numeric not alphanumeric.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download some files
2. Open the Download Manager
3. Click on the "Transferred" column header to order the contents by this column

Actual Results:  
"Transferred" column was ordered alphanumerically

Expected Results:  
Numerical ordering on "Transferred" column.

Of if this is too hard, then turn off ordering on "Transferred" altogether.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

I see this on LInux 2003112309

Comment 2

[Emmanuel Bourg]

*** Bug 225800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 239705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jesiah S]

*** Bug 247345 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 285469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

Solved by the new UI in bug 472001 (just landed), so duping to that.

Comment 8

[Jim Ronback]

Maybe it could be partially solve by adding one or more spaces before "KB", before ordering. e.g., 
1044KB of 1044KB
104KB of 104KB
1052KB of 1052KB

becomes
104 KB of 104 KB
1044 KB of 1044 KB
1052 KB of 1052 KB

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

As I said in comment #7, it _is_ solved completely and correctly by the new UI in bug 472001 for SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 and later.