GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 533328
Wrong arrow direction when sorting in a tree view
Last modified: 2020-12-04 18:20:11 UTC
The arrows that are shown in a tree view when you sort the list for a specific column is wrong. If you select "View as List" in Nautilus and click in the "Date Modified" column, an arrow pointing down appears, but the bigger date is shown below. I think it should be something like this: Big Value > Small Value Small Value < Big Value Other information: The Explorer in Windows works correctly
The GTK+ engine does not have any influence on the area (it is just drawing what it is told to draw). The relevant section in the GNOME HIG is: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/controls-lists.html.en#controls-lists-sortable This means that nautilus is following the Human Interface Guidlines correctly. If the arrow points down, the oldest dates are shown first. Though I noticed that the GTK+ file chooser shows it the other way around. (Moving it over to the HIG for now, as that seems more appropriate.)
>This means that nautilus is following the Human Interface Guidlines correctly. >If the arrow points down, the oldest dates are shown first. This is NOT what is happening, when the arrow points down, the oldest dates are shown LAST. >Though I noticed that the GTK+ file chooser shows it the other way around. The file chooser behaves correctly.
>The file chooser behaves correctly. Only with the dates, with the name is behaving wrong.
I just had a look at the Human Interfahce Guidlines. Sort Order: Normal Arrow Direction: Down Notes: Alphabetical; smallest number first; earliest date first; checked items first Sort Order: Reverse Arrow Direction: Up Notes: Reverse alphabetical; largest number first; most recent date first; unchecked items first) So "earliest date first" means that the items that are further in the past, should be at the top. This is what nautilus is doing. And file name sorting is done correctly according to the HIG in both nautilus and the file chooser. It seems to me that you want the exact reverse behaviour (to what the HIG suggests). (Or I am missing something ...)
Reading the HIG, I noticed that Nautilus is doing what it says. But I think the behaviour should be the opposite, so the HIG should be changed. If the arrow direction is down, the biggest values should be at top (including the most recent dates).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 305277 ***