Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] GUI: Arrow directions for column sorting order?

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From: "Lars Ruoff" <lars.ruoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:37:04 +0100
Hi,
while doing the column sort for RTP analysis (the code for which i stole
shamelessly from endpoint_talkers_table.c), i was confused by the way the
arrows point for the appropriate sorting orders.
This is just a matter of conventions of course, but i realised that Windows
conventions (eg. Windows Explorer) are just the other way round, i.e.
Ascending order (1,2,3,...): Arrow UP
Descending order (9,8,7,...): Arrow DOWN

Is the way Ethereal does common in the Unix (or any other) world? Or is it
just some developers choice? (then we might think about changing it!).

Lars Ruoff.