Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Sam Hulick
On 2/21/14 1:53 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On 02/21/2014 12:39 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: Check out this collage of just a few different applications (both native and web) that show that an arrow pointing up means sort in ascending order, and an arrow pointing down means sort in a descending order.

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 02/21/2014 11:08 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: I don't think A-Z is guesswork. Other operating systems and several apps have already laid out the fact that an arrow pointing up is ascending order, an arrow pointing down is descending order. The fact that you talk about the indicators as arrows

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: No matter which direction, it remains guesswork if A–Z maps to newer–older and to smaller–larger or if any pair has to be switched around. I will attach a mockup (that is old as the theme looks) with a possible solution

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 02/21/2014 11:08 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: I don't think A-Z is guesswork. Other operating systems and several apps have already laid out the fact that an arrow pointing up is ascending order, an arrow pointing down is

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-20 Thread Jonathan Meek
I would file a bug against the light-themes on launchpad. Design can take a look at it from there and decide what to do. This is one of the most critical times to file such a bug with the next LTS around the corner (Which is shaping up to be quite the treat even if I'm much more interested in