Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#13869 closed defect (invalid)
statusline longitude and latitude icons are mixed up
Reported by: | wiktorn | Owned by: | team |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 16.10 |
Component: | Core | Version: | tested |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
When checked our status line (bottom left) I saw, that when I move the mouse horizontally then the position marked with vertical red line changes and vice versa.
Checking images/statusline/lat.png
I see an icon with horizontal line and images/statusline/lon.png
has a vertical line.
Shouldn't we exchange this icons one with another?
It's so for so long that I'm not sure if I'm correct :)
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follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
Replying to bastiK:
a line of constant latitude / longitude as a symbol for lat. / lon.
I also interpret it this way. In my opinion we should keep the current icons.
What I just noticed is that the lat/lon numbers don't update when you move the map with the keyboard (ctrl + arrow keys).
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Never thought about like this.
My understanding is like this, that you always highlight the dimension that changes. This approach scales well if you have more than 2 dimensions. Highlighting what remains constant is less informative if you have for example 12 dimensions.
I checked some other programs but I did not find one, that shows coordinates separately annotated with different icons.
But I guess that this would need testing on our users to decide best solution. Maybe they are already accustomed to current solution so introducing a change will only result in confusion.
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
- image search for latitude gives images with horizontal lines
- image search for longitude gives images with vertical lines
comment:5 by , 8 years ago
Resolution: | → invalid |
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Status: | new → closed |
Ok, I asked at home the same question and I stand corrected :-)
See also #10773. The idea of the current icons is to show a line of constant latitude / longitude as a symbol for lat. / lon.
I agree it can be misinterpreted but simply swapping the icons doesn't improve the situation imho.