Re: [Gnumed-devel] icons needed for sorting documents

[James Busser]

> Sort modes are:
>
> - by age (newest floats to the top)
> - by review status (unreviewed to the top)
> - by episode (IOW, problem) (alphabetically)

These would benefit from unification. Elements could include a  
background item (a stack of horizontal lines sorted by length?), and  
a foreground object specific to the type of sort. Ideas on the  
specifics would be interesting. For the episodes, maybe some kind of  
branch-tree? I cannot recall any graphic representations of age  
("old" vs "new"), some options could be ambiguous (hourglass...  
waiting/processing?) (calendar... go to schedule?)

Two "forms" per item could support reversed sorts (maybe with the  
background "lines" reversed)

The "current" sort state might be denoted by a drop-shadow (four  
"forms" per item").

Will documents default to any sort order? Will "unsorted" be a  
possible state?