HIG - good programming practice - sorted lists

Registered by Ferdinand

the great new "feature" tab in "modules" requires me to bring the "sort" question up again.
Example: module "base" - feature tab - everything is unsorted ..... and not sortable. - noway to find items quickly.
see also
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/controls-lists.html.en#controls-lists-sortable

IMHO it would be great to establish a programming guide line that all lists have to be sorted by default in a human understandable way. meaning that the sort criteria has to be visible and easy to recognize.

Sorry somewhat duplicated pls see
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+spec/sorted-output

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