https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13844
Bug ID: 13844
Summary: Column sort arrow direction is the wrong way round
Classification: Xfce Core
Product: Thunar
Version: 1.6.11
Hardware: PC (x86_64)
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Medium
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.8.0
See discussions here [http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/456] and here
[https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/66307/sort-arrows-reversed-between-macos-and-linux/p1].
Essentially: triangle facing up (^) has become the pseudo-universal standard
for ascending order i.e. 1,2,3. Triangle facing down (V) descending order,
largest first, 3,2,1. This is true in windows & apple OSs, online various
(wikipedia etc).
Per the first link there's not necessarily any winning rationale for this,
though there are some posited here
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/338166/which-direction-should-the-arrows-point-in-a-sorted-table],
especially 'wide base = biggest value, narrow point = smallest value'.
Regardless of winning justification, the key point is UX is worsened by
breaking from convention for no apparent reason.
Thus: please can Thunar reverse the direction of the triangle/arrows used to
signify sort order for columns?
Thanks
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