[JDEV] Ordering roster groups?

[Thomas Muldowney]

I'm not sure I see how this would increase it so much?  You would have
to drastically alter the roster protocol so that groups where stored
external of items so that you had one master list.  Then you'd have to
introduce refs (or keep the names, but what'st he point then?) back to
the master list.  It's fairly trivial to pull in the group names as you
process the roster and keep theme sorted.

--temas


On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 08:04, Bart van Bragt wrote:
> At the moment clients do the ordering of the roster, for normal contacts 
> that's not much of a problem for me but for groups it is.
> 
> Psi sorts the groups in an alphabetical way which is far from optimal 
> for me, especially with a large roster where some groups fall off the 
> list some of the time (even when people that are away are hidden).
> 
> IMO it would increase the usability of the roster by quite some extent 
> if it was possible to save the order of the groups on the Jabber server. 
> Of course the client could save some info on the server that contains 
> the order but IMO it would be much nicer if this info could be embedded 
> in the groups/roster and if this was standardized in a JEP.
> 
> Any reasons why this would be a bad idea? How do you think this should 
> be implemented?