Re: Sorting-Symbol in column header

Tobias Schäfer wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 08:31, Michael Trowe wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> it's a very minor issue:
>> You show a different symbol for the sorting-order in column-header than
>> it is used by windows. In Windows an up-arrow is used for "low to high"
>> - you use the up arrow for "high to low" - as shown in the attached
>> screenshot.
>
> Confirmed.
>
> There are actually two ways of interpreting the triangle:
> 1. The peak (thin part) describes the small values, the base (wide part)
> describes the large values.
> 2. The peak points to the larger values
>
> Alternative 1 is currently implemented by windows.
> Alternative 2 by TortoiseSVN.
> KDE and Gnome (just to name something else) actually implement alternative
> 2.
>
> I prefer alternative 1, but I guess my opinion doesn't count :-)
>
> So, what is actually wrong? Are there any commonly accepted GUI standards
> describing this sorting triangle?

It's not really wrong, but different than how the explorer does it.
That's why I didn't mark it as "BUG:" in the changelog but with a "CHG:".

Stefan

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