[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2382: d.legend: integer map legends should not be flipped upside-down

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#2382: d.legend: integer map legends should not be flipped upside-down
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 Reporter:  neteler      |       Owner:  hamish             
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  assigned           
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  7.0.0              
Component:  Display      |     Version:  svn-releasebranch70
 Keywords:  d.legend     |    Platform:  All                
      Cpu:  Unspecified  |  
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Comment(by wenzeslaus):

 Replying to [comment:1 hamish]:
 >
 > In the NC08 dataset consider: `d.legend towns`
 >  (see attached screenshot)
 >
 > I think we can all agree that counting from category 1 (smallest value)
 at the top is how we would like that to be.
 >
 Sorry, I cannot agree entirely. I don't see the reason to have numbers
 there when labels are the only important thing in case of of towns. Then
 of course the order (order according category) is not important. Although
 I agree that we might suppose some ordering imprinted in categories, e.g.
 in case of labels for slope.

 > note I built in two handy tricks to get the flip to happen without the
 -f flag: in GRASS 6 (and with at= in G7) when drawing the box with the
 mouse draw from bottom up instead of top down, and another way is to
 reverse the order of values in the range= option.
 >
 I generally agree with introducing these tricks (clever decision making,
 heuristics). However, in this case it is questionable if it creates more
 confusion then convenient/handy behavior. Perhaps option
 `order=ascending`, `order=descending` and `order=auto` would improve the
 situation by making things explicit. `order=auto` can be the default.
 `order=ascending` and `order=descending` would disable any handy tricks.

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