Guidance on sort order triangle direction is opposite of prevailing convention
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Lars Karlitski |
Bug Description
This has been discussed looong ago here https:/
I don't know exactly what relation there is between gnome and unity, but I'm astonished to see that the issue is also present in Unity two years later (two years since the first comment; the bug report indeed dates back to 2005!!).
The small end of the triangle (i.e. its tip) should correspond to the side where things are small (i.e. small numbers, strings beginning with 'a', etc), and the big end of the triangle (i.e. its base) should correspond to the side where things are big (big numbers, strings beginning with 'z',...). So a triangle with the tip on the top should mean "ascending downwards", and a triangle with the tip on the bottom and the base on the top should mean "descending downwards". This is the prevailing convention EVERYWHERE except in Ubuntu, and it is also the only one that makes sense.
The only possible ambiguity (or questionability) is with dates, because an earlier date can be regarded as "smaller" than a more recent date but also as a "bigger" time ago.
Apparently, the (wrong) rationale behind the reverse directioning is that the triangles are mistakenly seen as "arrows" indicating in which physical direction the values are increasing. Hence a "down arrow" (triangle with the tip at the bottom) would mean "the values increase downwards". Note however that this reasoning is fundamentally flawed in that it requires an already implicit "increasing" ordering: if the arrow points "downwards" you have to read "downwards is increasing", if it points upwards you have to read "upwards is increasing".
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
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affects: | unity (Ubuntu) → light-themes (Ubuntu) |
affects: | unity → light-themes |
description: | updated |
affects: | light-themes (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu) |
affects: | light-themes → ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Lars Uebernickel (larsu) |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
affects: | ayatana-design → hundredpapercuts |
no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
notified the design team by adding ayatana-design as "affects" to this bug report. Interesting report.