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Idea
#8056: Ordering of list items in GNOME
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Written by loonyphoenix the 4 May 08 at 12:24.
Category: Accessibility.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Does anybody else find this odd? I mean, it looks like they confused < with >. It's like writing 8 > 10. It freaks me out a bit, frankly.
Could < and > (vertical versions) be switched somehow? Or at least given the option to switch them?
If someone knows why they made it this way, please explain it to me. :) And check out my other ideas, please, if you liked this one.
Attachments
 Bug #228800 : Deceptive marker for list ordering in GNOME
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Comments
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PeterKraus wrote on the 4 May 08 at 16:11
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Actually, they are not comparison signs. It's not only Gnome doing it this way, personally, all my applications are sorting files this way (V -> smaller to bigger, ^ -> bigger to smaller).
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loonyphoenix wrote on the 4 May 08 at 16:32
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Well, they should've made it less ambiguous, then, because to me it looks EXACTLY like a comparison sign.
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lynx wrote on the 4 May 08 at 21:32
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PeterKraus, if u have a vertical list sorted smaller to bigger (v), how is this sign rational? watching the sign it should be exactly the opposite (^)!
so, the top element should be 'smaller' and the bottom element 'greater',then when i'm browsing a sorted list i can quickly watch the header and say how it's been sorted.
it's like the comparison sign A > B (A greater than B) ... you have greater in the left and smaller in right.
what i'm seeing now in ubuntu is completely odd!
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Jan-Nik wrote on the 4 May 08 at 21:57
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Their must be a bug report about this, does someone know one?
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dani wrote on the 4 May 08 at 22:51
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For what it's worth, Windows uses ^ for smaller to bigger, top to bottom and v for bigger to smaller, top to bottom.
I agree with lynx on this though, v represents bigger to smaller, as it goes from wide to narrow from top to bottom ;)
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Redrazor39 wrote on the 5 May 08 at 00:12
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agreed.
report this bug
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loonyphoenix wrote on the 9 May 08 at 20:02
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Reported the bug :)
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andruk wrote on the 23 Aug 08 at 07:35
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Good catch.
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