From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lucas Sandery [three am design]" Subject: gitk next/prev buttons Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:01:01 +0930 Message-ID: <524A33E5.7090001@threeamdesign.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 01 05:30:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQqfH-0004ag-D5 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:30:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755592Ab3JADaU (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:30:20 -0400 Received: from smtp1.adam.net.au ([202.136.110.253]:46427 "EHLO smtp1.adam.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755489Ab3JADaT (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:30:19 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3554 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:30:19 EDT Received: from 219-90-161-123.ip.adam.com.au ([219.90.161.123] helo=[192.168.8.181]) by smtp1.adam.net.au with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VQpjp-00077I-Gm for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:01:01 +0930 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The "next" and "prev" buttons are lacking consistency and logic. For RTL languages previous is almost always on the left, and next on the right. The words are contradictory, "next" actually goes to backwards chronologically, and "prev" goes forward. Could the positions of the buttons be switched and the text be replaced with "earlier" and "later"? This would make the reference time not just order, and would mean the updated UI would not be confused with the previous one. Also, the arrow-only next/previous buttons (beside the commit ID) should really point up and down. Horizontal directions are ambiguous for navigation of a vertical list.