You are right, thanks, and It's curious:
Via this dropdown or Ctrl+F5, Ctr-F6, Ctrl+F7 one can switch over to these different views of the note list (vertical with details is new for me, sorting very easy now).
Or just switch with F5 only - and get different results depending on the default (vertical or horizontal) in the beginning.
A good example, tells me that trial and error can achieve very useful results.