This page collects ideas on how to improve the Table View; most of these are from email - thanks to Eric Jarvies for the nice screen mock-ups.

Page

On trunk we finally have the ability to make data queries by "page"; this will let us just request the data on screen and avoid the mess of loading everything into memory.

Thumbnail with Row Height

In the table view pane:
1. adjust row height
2. place thumbnail display of selected record/geometry where the FID column currently is(meaning the first column)

Sort Order

Add display-order options for search results, allowing use to order up the results on top of the list, in ascending or descending order, etc. the addition of the little icon that orders highlighted record to the top of the list is nice ... perhaps add a second icon, wherein one has A-Z, and the other has Z-A

I think right now you can click on the column to sort the data; this functionality depends on loading all the data into memory; but it is something the JFace Viewer gives us for free. For uDig 1.1.0 we may of turned off this feature based on table selection getting messed up...