#13948 closed (fixed)
The sort arrows on the UI for the admin list display are backwards
| Reported by: | Jim Dalton | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | contrib.admin | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
The sort arrows on the column headers of the admin change list view are backwards (i.e. inverted).
Right now, on the change list view, if you are sorting a column ascending, the arrow shown is a down-pointing triangle. If you sort a column descending, it is an up-pointing triangle.
This is counter-intuitive, and, I would argue, just plain wrong. Here are my reasons in case you need them:
- Up = ascending, down = descending.
- An "up-pointing" triangle grows small to big, a "down-pointing" triangle goes big to small. This maps intuitive to ascending/descending sort order for numbers.
- Google image search for sort descending icon: http://www.google.com/images?q=sort+descending+icon . Google image search for sort ascending icon: http://www.google.com/images?q=sort+ascending+icon
- Both Mac OS X and Windows consistently use up triangle for ascending and down triangle for descending.
My apologies if this has been covered or discussed elsewhere (my search turned up nothing) or if I am overlooking something ridiculous.
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Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
I'm also convinced by this. The icon only appears for the column that is currently sorted, so you can't really argue that it shows what will happen if you click it.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
| Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Design decision needed |
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Agreed. Some quick testing shows that the UI default is backwards. I spoke to Alex and he suggested to change it as DDN. Will ping jezdez so he can see can take a look at it.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Triage Stage: | Design decision needed → Accepted |
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by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | 13948_changelist_arrows.diff added |
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comment:5 by , 14 years ago
| milestone: | → 1.3 |
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| Triage Stage: | Accepted → Ready for checkin |
Hopefully the patch is trivial enough to allow me to RFC it.
Sounds like a sensible argument to me. Though perhaps the arrow is intended to indicate what the link will do if you click it, not how the list is currently sorted? Any UI experts want to advise?