Fix the ordering of categories after application restart

[soarpasser]

Currently LR randomizes the display order of a user's archive categories every time the application restarts, see: Before restart After restart

Same goes for the "add to category" dropdown menu whenever you right click an archive, and the dropdown list order in the "modify categories" tab.

This can be a bit of an annoyance in some cases especially for users with OCD (lol). Pinning the categories one by one in the "modify categories" tab does not work since pinned categories go back to being unpinned after LR restarts as well. Not sure if that is intended behavior.

Either way, it would be neat to at least let the user arrange the ordering of categories and save them.

[Difegue]

The order of categories shouldn't be random: Recently used categories should show up first, preceded by pinned ones.
If you pin everything, I think the order then becomes alphabetical? Not sure.

Pinned categories shouldn't reset after a restart though, are you sure about this? (As in, they don't show up as pinned in the categories configuration screen?)

[soarpasser]

The order of categories shouldn't be random: Recently used categories should show up first, preceded by pinned ones. If you pin everything, I think the order then becomes alphabetical? Not sure.

But apparently they are - see the screenshots here for a before/after comparison. after a restart -

Also regarding "Recently used categories should show up first, preceded by pinned ones." - it would be nice to have it so that the order is fixed, instead of automatically being ordered by the most recent category being used.

Pinned categories shouldn't reset after a restart though, are you sure about this? (As in, they don't show up as pinned in the categories configuration screen?)

Positive. After I pin the categories in the "modify categories" tab using this checkbox and restart the app, the previously pinned category goes back to being unpinned.