On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:37 AM, Lars Ruoff wrote:
while doing the column sort for RTP analysis (the code for which i
stole
shamelessly from endpoint_talkers_table.c), i was confused by the way
the
arrows point for the appropriate sorting orders.
This is just a matter of conventions of course, but i realised that
Windows
conventions (eg. Windows Explorer) are just the other way round, i.e.
Ascending order (1,2,3,...): Arrow UP
Descending order (9,8,7,...): Arrow DOWN
Is the way Ethereal does common in the Unix (or any other) world?
Well, on the UNIX on the desktop on which I'm typing this:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
the arrow points up when sorting in ascending order and down when
sorting in descending order, although from this screenshot:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/
it appears to be the other way around. No, I have no clue why that is.
(Both my desktop and the one in that screenshot have Mail doing
threading.) This screenshot:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/
OSXHIGuidelines/index.html
shows the arrow pointing down for a list sorted in descending order.
At least from this screenshot:
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/3.1/fullsize/11.png
and this screenshot:
http://www.kde.org/screenshots/images/3.1/fullsize/92.png
it appears that KDE has a downward-pointing arrow for ascending order.
And from this screenshot:
http://www.ximian.com/images/screenshots/evolution/
exchange_folders_email.png
it appears that GNOME (and perhaps non-GNOME GTK+ applications) tend
not to bother telling you in what order a column is being sorted. (I
haven't found any Nautilus screenshots showing lists of files rather
than icons, although there presumably are some.) This screenshot:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/
controls.html#controls-lists
also shows no sort order flag.
