One of those minor irritants that irritate nonetheless: sorting by "status" displays the short name ("cmp", "hld", "ip" &c.) instead of the more intelligible "Complete", "Hold", or "In Progress". The latter would be prefereable.
Pliny, good point! What if it even showed the short name, icon, *and* long name when grouping by status, like we do in the status field config dialog or status menus in the grid? I think we'll want to also offer display options in the grid for status in general, as to whether you want to show the icon, short name, or long name on a particular page.
I'm always for _more_ options. I would opt for a combination of icon + long name when sorting. Simple visual cues are good. Don't see where I'd ever care about seeing the short name in the GUI, though--apart from "Add field to entity" dialog.
Bump!
We've recently gotten the request to be able to display long names instead of icons. Seems like it would be very useful.