Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Florian Diesch
Am Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:14:39 -0300 schrieb "Alejandro J. Cura" : > I like the one about "A..Z" and "Z..A" for alpha, "1..9" and "9..1" > for numeric, "1..12" and "12..1" for dates. Hints like that would be nice. But from a programmers point of view I see quite some problems, like localisation is

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Sam Hulick
On 2/21/14 8:14 AM, Alejandro J. Cura wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On 02/21/2014 11:08 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: I don't think A-Z is guesswork. Other operating systems and several apps have already laid out the fact that an arrow pointing up is ascending order, an

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On 02/21/2014 11:08 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: >> >> I don't think A-Z is guesswork. Other operating systems and several apps >> have already laid out the fact that an arrow pointing up is ascending >> order, an arrow pointing down is descending

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > No matter which direction, it remains guesswork if A–Z maps to newer–older > and to smaller–larger or if any pair has to be switched around. > > I will attach a mockup (that is old as the theme looks) with a possible > solution for A–Z and s

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 02/21/2014 11:08 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: I don't think A-Z is guesswork. Other operating systems and several apps have already laid out the fact that an arrow pointing up is ascending order, an arrow pointing down is descending order. The fact that you talk about the indicators as arrows alrea

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Sam Hulick
On 2/21/14 1:53 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On 02/21/2014 12:39 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: Check out this collage of just a few different applications (both native and web) that show that an arrow pointing up means sort in ascending order, and an arrow pointing down means sort in a descending order.

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 02/21/2014 12:39 AM, Sam Hulick wrote: Check out this collage of just a few different applications (both native and web) that show that an arrow pointing up means sort in ascending order, and an arrow pointing down means sort in a descending order. No matter which direction, it remains guess

Re: [Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-20 Thread Jonathan Meek
I would file a bug against the light-themes on launchpad. Design can take a look at it from there and decide what to do. This is one of the most critical times to file such a bug with the next LTS around the corner (Which is shaping up to be quite the treat even if I'm much more interested in 14.10

[Unity-design] Let's talk about sorting arrows

2014-02-20 Thread Sam Hulick
Hey all, I wanted to bring up something which I feel has been a glaring design issue in Linux in general for ages now. While we can't change every distribution out there, I'm hoping the Ubuntu design team will consider this. The direction of sorting arrows in Ubuntu (and most GTK apps) is c