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Icon request: sort-other-asc & sort-other-desc (sort-shapes-asc & sort-shapes-desc) #9419

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Jacco-V opened this issue Jun 19, 2016 · 3 comments

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@Jacco-V
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Jacco-V commented Jun 19, 2016

There are two sort up/down icons with matching style1:

And then there is:

But this last one is visually quite different: the bars are a lot stronger than the numbers/letters in the ones mentioned first.

I would like to request two new icons:
sort-other-asc & sort-other-desc

sort-other-ascsort-other-desc

Or something else that is visually similar to sort-numeric & sort-alpha, but has abstract 'other' shapes instead (maybe triangles instead of squares, whatever works best).


1I'm aware that there are even more sort icons, but they are not visually related to the ones mentioned here.
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They look nice but I do not understand what order they represents. For alpha, numeric and amount it is obivious but with these two, I am not able to differientiate asc from desc because shapes have no natural ordering.
Also, isn't "other" reprensented by sort-asc and sort-desc?

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Jacco-V commented Jun 25, 2016

I proposed these exactly because some data does not have any obvious natural sorting order, yet I can sort my table columns on them.

I would like my sort icons to visually have the same style, so, in a table that uses
sort-numeric for number data and sort-alpha for textual data, I would like to be able to use a third, visually related, icon to sort non-number, non-textual data (for example, a list of avatars).

sort-asc & sort-desc have a completely different visual style.

@sensibleworld sensibleworld self-assigned this May 7, 2019
This was referenced Jun 4, 2019
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