Re: Right-to-left Gnome

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>]

Hi,

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> I just saw a screen shot from the Arabic translation of Gnome 2 at:
>
> 	http://amaoui.free.fr/gnome2/images/gnome2ar.png
>
> Which clearly has two major problems, one is that the widgets are not 
> mirrored and the other is underlining breaks Arabic joining.
The widget mirroring feature doesn't work very well, so I disabled it. 
(translating a string in gtk+.po
to RTL or LTR). For example you must click to the left to bring the 
applications menu which
is on the right. I'll post a screenshot later.

I've reported the problem of arabic joining breaks some time ago, but it 
didn't get resolved, and
I'm not familiar with gtk+/pango internals to fix it myself.

> About the first, I remember Robert Brady telling me he had a patch for
> mirroring GTK widgets, but unfortunately the guy has disappeared from the
> Net. Does anyone have such a patch? Is there any chance of inclusion into
> GTK? (I can take responsibility.)
>
> And about the latter, does anyone have a clue about the possible source
> and how to fix that? I just wanted to ask before jumping to code.
>
> roozbeh
>
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Regards,
Hicham Amaoui