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Bug 578416 - Ascending / Descending icons appear to be back-to-front.
Ascending / Descending icons appear to be back-to-front.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331551
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTreeView
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtktreeview-bugs
gtktreeview-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-08 19:35 UTC by Carl Farrington
Modified: 2014-12-23 01:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.13/3.14


Attachments
patch to flip the arrows (1.02 KB, patch)
2014-10-11 13:28 UTC, Lapo Calamandrei
none Details | Review

Description Carl Farrington 2009-04-08 19:35:04 UTC
Column header sort icons, e.g. in System Monitor, or when browsing files in list view, appear to be back to front.

I would expect V to mean "getting smaller" and ^ to mean "getting larger", because that's what the symbols look like, much like the mathematics greater-than (>) and smaller-than (<) symbols, but rotated clockwise ninety degrees. Instead the indicators appear to work in the opposite way. 

Apple and Microsoft's operating systems seem to conform to this expectation, if that means anything.

Here is a screenshot if I appear to be making no sense:
http://www.css-networks.com/arseaboutface.png

cheers,
Carl
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2009-04-08 19:39:49 UTC
Note sure if it's a gtk+ or theming issue.
Comment 2 Carl Farrington 2010-07-14 23:49:24 UTC
Well, it's been over a year now.
This must be the easiest opportunity for somebody to get that 'another squashed bug' satisfaction/points/whatever ;)
Comment 3 Lapo Calamandrei 2014-10-11 13:28:03 UTC
Created attachment 288274 [details] [review]
patch to flip the arrows

It's totally silly to have such a bug for ages...
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2014-10-12 21:20:22 UTC
Changing this sort of thing is only going to piss off everybody who got used to 'our' arrow ordering before. Not to mention that it is not at all clear that this will improve things overall - applications can install their own sort functions and flip the direction that way.
Comment 5 Lapo Calamandrei 2014-10-12 22:30:47 UTC
What we currently do makes very little sense and it's the reverse of what everything else is doing
Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2014-12-23 01:13:57 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 331551 ***