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sr #110997: Mislabeled button: "Revert comment order"

Submitter:  Dave <barx>
Submitted:  Sat 30 Dec 2023 08:08:52 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Savannah trackers - bugs, tasks, etc. Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  ineiev
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 01 Jan 2024 02:52:31 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Thank you, fixed.

Ineiev <ineiev>
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Sat 30 Dec 2023 06:46:28 PM UTC, comment #2: 

If a list is ordered chronologically oldest to newest, reversing that turns it into newest to oldest.  If it's ordered newest to oldest, reversing that turns it into oldest to newest.  No matter which order a list starts in, reversing it always has the result of putting it in the opposite order.

On the other hand, you cannot revert a list that has only had one order displayed.  "Revert" means "to go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief" (per American Heritage Dictionary).  There is no former ordering the first time you look at a list; therefore, there is nothing to revert to.  But you can still reverse the order.

Dave <barx>
Sat 30 Dec 2023 05:05:31 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The order is reverse by default; historically, the account configuration has a checkbox to change that; now, the button toggles the order no matter how it was set (i.e. the default order, the overridden order in the account settings, and at last, the button itself).

Ineiev <ineiev>
Site Administrator
Sat 30 Dec 2023 08:08:52 AM UTC, original submission:  

A few months ago, a button to reverse the order of comments was added to savannah's bug tracker.  This is a great feature--thank you for adding it!

The button to do this, however, is labeled "Revert comment order."  It is sometimes accurate to characterize this as reverting the order (that is, as returning to the order comments were in before the order they're currently displayed in).  But there may not have been any previously displayed order at all, yet the button still puts comments in the opposite order.  So it is always accurate to characterize this action as reversing the order.

Therefore, the button label should say "Reverse comment order" instead of "Revert comment order."

This is a minor quibble about an otherwise excellent button.

Dave <barx>

 

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