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In the "logical view" of the Find Usages results, packages are not shown in sorted order. See the attached screenshot.
Created attachment 74091 [details] Find Usages results view with unsorted packages
Class names are unsorted as well, also in the "physical view".
I know that I have already decreased the priority for other reports you created but this again sounds like rather cosmetic change to me.
I don't know whether it's more a P3 or more a P4, but it's not just cosmetic, it's a usability issue. When you need to inspect all usages (possibly making changes to them) by going through the results in the listed order (otherwise you wouldn't know which you've already inspected), then it can be very distracting to constantly have to jump between unrelated packages/modules in a random fashion. It's much more efficient to be able to focus on the occurrences in the contexts corresponding to the package structure at a time. On the class level as well it can be a lot more convenient to have the classes in alphabetical order, as related classes may have a common prefix. And it's easier to move around when the order corresponds to the one that is familiar from the Projects and Files view.
*** Bug 190417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Changeset: 2ef20b122ec2 Author: Ralph Benjamin Ruijs <ralphbenjamin@netbeans.org> Date: 2011-07-28 16:01 Message: Issue #153784 - [68cat] Find Usages results are unsorted
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/2ef20b122ec2 User: Ralph Benjamin Ruijs <ralphbenjamin@netbeans.org> Log: Issue #153784 - [68cat] Find Usages results are unsorted
*** Bug 83985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***