musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Sort arrows in table and list views are pointing to the opposite direction

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Description

Issue type

UI bug (incorrect info or interface appearance)

Description with steps to reproduce

Currently musescore uses SMALL_ARROW_DOWN for ascending and SMALL_ARROW_UP for descending sorting.

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Most modern apps are using the arrows with opposite sorting directions:

macOS:
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Windows:

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KDE:

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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

5.0.0

Regression

No.

Operating system

all

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