Re: GTK STOCK ascending and descending

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth mrc-lmb cam ac uk>]

Alvis Koon wrote:
> Just wonder, why the GTK stock item icon of A-Z ascending and
> descending are displayed with blue and red arrows respectively?
>
> In my opinion, it will give the user a sense of activation for turning red.
> When turning blue, it looks as if deactivated.
> Actually they can both "activated" in both sense.

Stock prices in the London market are traditionally shown with blue for
upticks and red for downticks. Some other markets use green for the
upticks. There's a potential difficulty with using green because of
red-green colour blindness, though it doesn't seem to cause much problem
in practice.

Cheers, Dave