Default sort on Modules / Themes pages

See the redesign. This page, as it currently exists, is going away.

Actually, given all the noise generated by idiots trying to game these pages by naming their themes "0001 theme", etc, we should do this. Even after the redesign, there's going to be a landing page here, and it's going to need a default sort, and sorting by usage is vastly more useful than anything else.

There's a bunch of discussion here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/24465

Michelle

Default sort can be like this : Random sort +/- Creation date sort
plus option to remember user's filter everytime he visits the page
see the attached rough diagram

Yes-- please lets not wait on this. The idiots are growing in number and in addition, since php function names cannot start with a digit, these geniuses are creating dysfunctional themes by naming their themes with digits in order to game the system.

My personal preference is for project created date desc, but any order that can't be gamed is better than no change.

Fixed in http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=249690

That commit has nothing to do with this feature request. ;) We're talking about if you don't specify a sort directly, instead of using alphabetical ASC, we should sort by usage DESC.

+1 for default search being usage DESC.

Here.

Deployed on d6.drupal.org, just to test the functionality (d6.drupal.org doesn't have usage data, and only have a partially indexed project base).

project_release nor usage are available on every site. So, I just made the default sort inspect a variable (project_solr_default_sort). It still *defaults* to title asc, but on d.o, it's now using usage desc. Committed attached patch to HEAD, merged into SVN, and deployed on d.o:

http://drupal.org/project/modules

Yay!