Re: [Usability] List View Column Header Sorting

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Pesky Evolution... sending the version I'd finished writing this time...

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:18 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:34 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>  Hi!
>  
>  The 'Three dialog problems' thread also reminded me of the list view 
>  column header sorting direction issue. What does a downward facing 
>  arrow mean ... ?

The HIG specifies exactly what each direction should mean; however,
whichever one we picked, some people disagreed with it and decided to do
the opposite :/

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-lists.html#controls-lists-sortable

Cheeri,
Calum.

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