Re: [Evolution-hackers] Callback to display messages

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Afifi,

Nice to see you talking all the efforts to fix the RTL bugs.

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 05:26 +0000, Djihed Afifi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to fix evolution's RTL bugs, such as:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309432
> 
> Which is a pretty serious bug for RTL users. 
> 
> Basically, GtkHTML has no notion of text direction, so hard coded
> message displaying in html in em-format-html.c  mean that they get
> displayed pretty badly when the interface direction is changed.
> 
> 
> So the solution is at the callback for displaying the message: Introduce
> a new variable "gboolean rtl" to EMFormat (is that correct?) , set it to
> true if the interface is RTL using gtk_widget_get_default_direction()
> before calling the displaying code.
> 
> But I'm having a hard time finding where the callbacks that display the
> message contents are. Any help in fixing this bug is greatly
> appreciated.

It would be better if we can chat on irc, where can discuss it detail.
I'm 'srag' on #evolution at GimpNet.

-Srini.