228183 - Sort caret is inverted (displays descending for ascending and vice versa)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227455

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Amir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I am not sure if there is a hard and fast convention, but Thunderbird displays
the opposite caret for sort order windows apps such as OE6. The OE6 method makes
sense to me since a descending sort (largest first) displays with the wide part
of the triangle at the top. This is a visual clue that the larger things are 
higher in the list than the smaller things (the point of the triangle).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David White]

I vote for this being a bug as well.  Thunderbird has the nomenclature right 
(the "View->Sort By" menu correctly shows "Ascending" when the sorting is A->Z 
or older->newer, and "Descending" when the reverse is true), but the arrow 
should be pointing "up" when it's in ascending order and "down" for descending 
order.  At the moment (v0.5 20040207), the arrow is pointing the opposite 
direction in both cases.

Comment 2

[Tony]

Attachment: Inversed Caret on List

I hereby agree that the caret is indeed pointing the wrong way.

Comment 3

[Max Grender-Jones]

I don't have the power to do mark this as a duplicate, but it is a duplicate of
bug #227455

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Yes it is.  See also bug 93772.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227455 ***