Floating file header jumps to top on sorting

[tobiasKaminsky]

• scroll down a bit
• click on a table header e.g. Date for sorting
• see that file list jumps to top

instead it position should remain, but only content should change.

[skjnldsv]

What should be the expected behaviour btw, if you sort everything, keeping the scrolling position would most likely not show the relevancy the user is looking for?

[tobiasKaminsky]

instead it position should remain, but only content should change.

This is what I am used to on other file listings, e.g. Dolphin on Linux, or Thunderbird.

[skjnldsv]

Good from me 🤷‍♂️
@jancborchardt @nimishavijay, you good with that?

[nimishavijay]

🤔 what @skjnldsv said about scrolling to show relevant info makes sense to me as well, on checking other apps it truly is a mixed bag. Windows file explorer and Google Drive scroll on changing sort order, while Dropbox, Nautilus on Ubuntu and the other apps @tobiasKaminsky mentioned don't scroll. I would go with scrolling for same reason @skjnldsv mentioned, ccing @jancborchardt here

[jancborchardt]

We do a hard refresh on re-sorting, so pretty difficult to keep the position anyway?

I would also agree with @skjnldsv and @nimishavijay’s research in that it makes a bit more sense to scroll to top since the whole content changed.

A quick animation that scrolls to the top of the list would of course be nice, but yeah with the hard refresh it’s difficult.

[skjnldsv]

We do a hard refresh on re-sorting, so pretty difficult to keep the position anyway?

There is some options possible. It's easy to remember the top-to-scroll-position pixel amount, but depending on what we wanna achieve, some stuff can and can't be done :)

What about this:

1. If a file is focused, we scroll to its position on a sorting change
2. If a file is selected (or a group) we scroll to the first selected item
3. If there is is none, we scroll up top

[skjnldsv]

A quick animation that scrolls to the top of the list would of course be nice, but yeah with the hard refresh it’s difficult.

Also, keep in mind files to vue is still ongoing, a hard refresh might be avoidable here (just re-rendering might be possible)