Secondary sort criteria

[ctron]

For example packages, you get is sorted by "name" by default. However, as the screenshot shows, there is no second order criteria. Which makes it pretty hard to work with. My expectation for defaults would be:

1. By namespace
2. By name
3. By version
4. By label

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[carlosthe19916]

If I understand correctly you are asking to sort a Table by multiple Columns at the same time. Is that right?

Visually, with Patternfly, we can only sort the table by one column at a time.

The fact that the data might be difficult to see might be a reflection of a different problem like #322

If visualizing the data is difficult I think #322 makes more sense than introducing multiple column sorting criterias.

[ctron]

If I understand correctly you are asking to sort a Table by multiple Columns at the same time. Is that right?

Yes.

I think this is different in a way to #322 as that issue it about packages of an SBOM. While this one is about the global package list. The latter having more similar items than the former.

Maybe there are other ways dealing with this. Maybe a "traditional" one is multiple sort criteria. Right now it feels a bit chaotic.

[carlosthe19916]

If I understand correctly you are asking to sort a Table by multiple Columns at the same time. Is that right?

Yes.

Doing some clean up

Patternfly design guidelines states only one column can be used for sorting at a time:

Table data can only be sorted on one column at a time.

Taken from https://www.patternfly.org/components/table/design-guidelines

So not something we plan to do anything about at the moment.
We could open this issue if UX recommends doing such thing