Closed Bug 243480 Opened 20 years ago Closed 12 years ago

previous/next buttons should be up/down instead of left/right

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Theme, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Theme
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Thunderbird 16.0

People

(Reporter: davidmaxwaterman, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+

The icons for the 'move to the previous unread message' and '...next...' buttons
contain arrows which point left and right.

This is unintuitive since the messages are lists one above the other.

IMO, they should point up and down, respectively.

Please consider changing the images. I would have done it myself, but I can't
find the image for a button without an arrow.

Thanks.

Max.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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(In reply to comment #0)
> The icons for the 'move to the previous unread message' and '...next...' buttons
> contain arrows which point left and right.

You ment to report this bug for Thunderbird, right?
doh! you're quite right. thanks.

could someone change it? it won't let me change the target milestone.
Assignee: bugs → mscott
Component: Toolbars → Mail Window Front End
Product: Firefox → Thunderbird
QA Contact: bugzilla
Yes, this makes sense.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: next/previous buttons need to be rotated 90 degrees → previous/next buttons should be up/down instead of left/right
Severity: trivial → enhancement
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
QA Contact: front-end
Assignee: mscott → nobody
opinions?
That makes sense to me, much more than the double arrows >>, <<
Blocks: 727598
Component: Mail Window Front End → Theme
QA Contact: front-end → theme
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Fixed by bug 727598, cabe seen in current trunk, TB16.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 16.0
I guess that the text for the buttons now might not make sense, depending on how the user has the messages sorted? It doesn't matter for the icons, since 'down' is always down, irrespective of if it's the next or previous message, but the text could be confusing?
Not sure what you mean. It seems Previous (up) always goes up regardless of sort order.

Do you mean that if you have sorted by Date and descending (newest on top), that actually pressing Previous goes up, which means to newer message in time order?
(In reply to :aceman from comment #8)
> Do you mean that if you have sorted by Date and descending (newest on top),
> that actually pressing Previous goes up, which means to newer message in
> time order?

Yes - the meaning of 'next' and 'previous' might imply a chronological order - but perhaps not, which is fine...
Maybe, if you sort by date/time. If you sort by other property, it is not so easy. But yes, in any ordering there is the mathematical notion of previous and next (or lower and higher). I agree the buttons may work wrong in that notion. But it is the question if users care about that notion :) It looks like not much as Outlook 2007 works the same way as TB.
(In reply to :aceman from comment #10)
> Maybe, if you sort by date/time. If you sort by other property, it is not so
> easy. But yes, in any ordering there is the mathematical notion of previous
> and next (or lower and higher). I agree the buttons may work wrong in that
> notion. But it is the question if users care about that notion :) It looks
> like not much as Outlook 2007 works the same way as TB.

Indeed. I have nothing more to add. Thanks for fixing this :)
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