Re: Translating pictures

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:

> Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu> writes:
> 
> > Well, after a lot of chatting with friends here, it seems that just 
> > mirroring an image, or replacing it with a mirrored image in case of 
> > Right-to-Left languages is not enough! We really need to *localize* the 
> > images based on the language or the locale. 
> > 
> > A very good example is the GTK_STOCK_SORT_ASCENDING icon, where the Latin
> > letters "A" and "Z" are used as indications of the first and last letters
> > of the alphabet, or the icon for GTK_STOCK_SPELL_CHECK which may confuse
> > the user fooling her that it's a key for, say, switching to a Latin
> > font/keyboard/... This is the same with every language that doesn't use 
> > Latin.
> > 
> > So I need even more thoughts and suggestions...
> 
> Well, RTL variants and localization are basically separate issues.
> (Though you can have localized RTL variants, of course....)
> 
> You should be able to create a /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkrc.fa and override
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I mean /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.fa

Regards,
                                        Owen