From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabulated-list sort icon is reversed Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:19:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a7qbtc6l.fsf@gnu.org> <83bmaqq735.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533068421 26033 195.159.176.226 (31 Jul 2018 20:20:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:20:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 22:20:17 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkb7x-0006hW-EK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkbA3-000256-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50387) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkb9x-00024w-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkb9s-0007wf-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57771 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fkb9s-0007vv-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:22:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkb7j-0006QS-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:20:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:X0nAOv6UF78OsCDWcocFfdvZaFs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228062 Archived-At: > and a triangle with vertex on top (like ^). The same ambiguity arises: > Does it represent the current sort order (low-to-high / small-to-large)? > Or does it represent the new sort order you'll get if you use that button? You can click on any column to cause it to be sorted, so it wouldn't make much sense for that triangle to be a button (i.e. why have a button in that one column and not in all others?). > And apparently other, non-Windows contexts take the approach that the > icon represents the new order you'll get if you click the icon. I don't think so. Stefan