GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 578416
Ascending / Descending icons appear to be back-to-front.
Last modified: 2014-12-23 01:13:57 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
Note sure if it's a gtk+ or theming issue.
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 ;)
Created attachment 288274 [details] [review] patch to flip the arrows It's totally silly to have such a bug for ages...
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.
What we currently do makes very little sense and it's the reverse of what everything else is doing
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 331551 ***