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Is There Way for Smart Lists to Be On Top?

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Mike Harris (2) Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Is there a way for smart lists to be on top, instead of on the bottom?

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hi Mike,

The only good way I see is to implement manual (drag-n-drop) list sorting. However, it requires reasonable amount of time; it's hard for me to say now when I'll be able to start on this.

Regards,
Andrew

 
Mike Harris (2) Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Darn. There's no "quick hack" methodology I could somehow implement? One of the big productivity problems I've been having is that all of my Smart Lists, since they're sorted at the bottom, are essentially off-screen. And, as they say, "Out of sight, out of mind."

I suppose I could just hide tons of the manual lists. That's highly unideal since I'd not see those individual project lists, though. :(

Just out of curiosity, if you weren't to implement it via drag-and-drop, but just by having first Smart Lists and then non-smart lists, is that an easier fix?

I strongly suspect that this preference (for Smart Lists to be on the top, instead of the bottom) is a preference most of your users share. I don't have hard data on that -- it's just my strong suspicion.

 
Mike Harris (2) Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Have an idea. How about a "smart list only" toggle? It looks like a smartlist-only display is possible via toggling some CSS code on and off:

http://userstyles.org/styles/4802

Just an idea, but thought I'd throw that out there.

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

For the time being you can hide regular lists (Settings --> Lists --> Hide)

 
Mike Harris (2) Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Understood, but that can make it very easy to lose track of projects that have been individually hidden.

I'm just thinking that if you don't want to -- or for a while won't be getting around to -- coding up individually rearranging projects via drag-and-drop, this would be a quick solution.

You could have it be something someone clicks, or map it to a letter, but this way, all you'd have to trigger is whether the "normal" CSS was active or the "hide normal projects" CSS was open (#listtabs ul li as "display:none" and #listtabs ul li.xtab_smartlist and #listtabs ul li.xtab_selected as "display:block").

Just a thought.

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hi Mike,
I think I'll start to work on lists re-ordering. From what I see now, the implementation shouldn't be very complex, and so won't take too much time.
Check back soon (approx. 2 weeks).

Regards,
Andrew

 
Mike Harris (2) Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Sounds great! Thank you. :-)

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hi Mike,
I prepared standalone "A Bit Better RTM" firefox extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/... with drag-and-drop functionality.

As it happens, it wasn't that easy to integrate drag-and-drop into greasemonkey script, it became too complex, and so I decided to compile the script into standalone extension.
Regards,
Andrew

 
Mike Harris (2) Scriptwright
FirefoxMacintosh

Thank you! I have it installed now and am giving it a chance.

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