[Freeciv-Dev] Re: sorting order of cities in city list (F1-key) (PR#1683)

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:13:48PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:45:49PM -0700, Markus.Buechele@xxxxxx wrote:
> > If you sort the cities in the city overview window by size (workers), the 
> > cities will not be listed numerically correctly but alpha-numerically.
> > 
> > Example: Correct order workers: 0/1/... 0/2... 0/5... 0/12... 0/14...
> > Present order: 0/1/... 0/12... 0/14... 0/2... 0/5...
> 
> This is a longstanding matter, and with respect to developers,
> it has been addressed before, with a patch. This patch also introduced
> new sorting mechanisms, and wasn't accepted for that reason.
> 
> If someone finds the time, she could try to extract the sorting
> fix out of that patch and repair it for the release.

this patch is not going to make it into the release. It will probably
remain an issue for GTK 1.2.

-mike

> 
> Christian
> 
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