[Bug 297807] Sorting arrows are upside down everywhere

[Christoph Feck]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297807

Christoph Feck <christoph at maxiom.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|general                     |style
           Assignee|unassigned-bugs at kde.org     |hugo.pereira at free.fr
            Product|kde                         |Oxygen
           Severity|normal                      |wishlist

--- Comment #3 from Christoph Feck <christoph at maxiom.de> ---
Originally, the arrow for the sort order was showing the graphical direction in
which the entries are ordered. For example, when using alphabetical order, the
arrow was pointing from A (the topmost entry) down to Z (at the bottom).

Then someone was confused about that graphical direction, and changed it to
mean the linguistic direction. We say "ascending" order when we mean A to Z,
and accordingly, the arrow now points up under that meaning.

Due to this confusion, there are actually bugs in many Qt applications. The Qt
API uses both "ascending/descending" as well as "up/down" ways to describe the
sort order or arrow direction, leading to bugs such as applications initally
showing the wrong sort order.

The Qt style has the final say about how the arrow should look, and some
styles, such as Plastique, use the "linguistic" meaning, some others (Oxygen,
Skulpture), use the "geometric" meaning.

Due to this confusion, I agree that the arrow direction should be configurable,
but Oxygen maintainers have the final word.

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