changing order in graphs

[Joe Pruett]

i'd like to affect the layout of things in the circular layout.  i've been 
looking at the code and i see that it just uses the order that things are 
sorted by the config reading code.  that got me to thinking that i'd like 
to be able to group things (routers first, switches, servers, hosts, etc) 
without splitting everything up into hostgroups.  and that got me to 
thinking that maybe it would be nice to have a data value for objects to 
allow sorting to be affected.  i was thinking that just a simple integer 
value that would take precedence over the main string name.  a missing 
value would sort at the beginning (like a 0) and equal int values would 
then use the string.  so putting all switches at level 10 and servers at 
level 20 would do the right thing.

does this sound like a useful/interesting idea?  it doesn't look like it 
should touch too much code.

ps: i've made patches that fix some of the layout issues with multiple 
parents.  i'll be sending that along soon.



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