Sort and copy results

[Kohei Yoshida]

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 17:20 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 22:52 +0200, Mat M wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Le Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:33:13 +0200, Kohei Yoshida  
> > <kohei.yoshida at collabora.com> a écrit:
> > 
> > > In Calc, you can go to Data -> Sort, and choose to copy the sorted
> > > results to someplace else, rather than the default option of sorting in
> > > place.
> > >
> > > I'm just wondering if anyone would miss this feature if it got removed.
> > >
> > > The UI is a bit awkward, and not clear what the associated two fields
> > > (left drop-down and right input fields) are supposed to take.
> > >
> > > Also, handling this option internally would require quite some extra
> > > effort, which, when one is trying to fix issues associted with this,
> > > would pose a greater risk of breaking things.
> > >
> > > Any objections for removing this?
> > >
> > > Kohei
> > 
> > Could we (well, huh, you ?) just copy the data first, then sort them  
> > in-place ? It will preserve the feature without causing effort to  
> > maintain. And we may even soften the UI by adding some labels to boxes.

What I would be more interested to know is: would *you* (or anyone you
know) personally miss this?

Kohei