Icon of arrow in date column in Nautilus / Gnome windows

[Xavier Guillot]

Hello,

Thanks for your work on Ubuntu to make it more nice to use.

I have a little remark, nothing really wrong, but a wish that would make life easier and could be added to Paper Cuts if you agree.

In Nautilus (Gnome) : the arrow we see in the "modification date" column if we order the files regarding their last modified date, with the most recent files on the top, this arrow is pointing up (which is logical):

http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1263475829.png

But, in any Gnome program (Totem, OpenOffice...) when we want to open / save a document for example, on the window which opens, if we want to order the files the same way, the most recent at the top, the arrow appearing here just near the text "Modified" is pointing... down !

http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1263476031.png

So this is not a major thing, but it can be confusing, sometimes reflexively I click on the "Modified" column and put arrow pointing up, but I see that files are not ordered with the newest at top as I wanted...

Thus it would be great if that arrow view could be uniform, I think there might be just a little thing to fix.

Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Xavier

[Vish (vish)]

I can confirm the behavior is different in nautilus and gtk+ , but who is to change the behavior?

gtk+ behavior is consistent with windows7.

While nautilus behavior is consistent with rhythmbox , gconf and other gnome apps.

maybe we should make gtk+ consistent with gnome?

[Vish (vish)]

This happens not only for the modified column but any sort in gtk+ has the arrows pointing opposite to gnome apps.

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Hello,

Thanks for the answer.

IMHO, as a user, I agree with your proposal to make gtk+ consistent
with Gnome: Nautilus behavior is also the same as Thundebird one, for
example - most recent files on the top = arrow pointing up.

On 20/01/2010 10:43, Vish wrote:
> I can confirm the behavior is different in nautilus and gtk+ , but who
> is to change the behavior?
>
> gtk+ behavior is consistent with windows7.
>
> While nautilus behavior is consistent with rhythmbox , gconf and other
> gnome apps.
>
> maybe we should make gtk+ consistent with gnome?
>
> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
> Status: New => Confirmed
>

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608537

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Hello,

Bug is still present in Ubuntu Lucid and remains unconfirmed in Gnome bugzilla since January.

Is it planned to fix it on papercuts for Maverick ?

Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Xavier

[Vish (vish)]

This has now been fixed upstream and will be available in Maverick.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue has been fixed in gtk 2.21.2 in maverick now