On Sunday 17 May 2009 8:58:10 am Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > For those who want to know more about this proposed change, here is a common > rational for the arrow position in Windows, Mac, and the web: > > v users perceive arrow as bigger on top so the list should contain the > "biggest" items first (decreasing, e.g. reverse alpha, 10-1) > > ^ users perceive arrow as smaller on top so the list should be sorted by the > "smallest" items first (increasing, e.g. alpha, 1-10) > > Also, the language "natural" order is very strange, does the GNOME HIG mean > "logical" order? There should never be a table that isn't sorted in some way. > Usually a good default is the first column is increasing by default unless > there is a better column to sort by. There's supposed to be logic to those? As far as I'm concerned, they could've used a blue circle and a red square to indicate sort direction for all the sense it's ever made. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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