Re: Directional Images

["phil" <phil philandanna no-ip org>]

On 17/10/13 01:16, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
> 2013/10/17 Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net>:
> > I think the thing that we'd want is to have a separate RTL icon theme that
> > inherits from the LTR icon theme, but overrides some icons with flipped
> > icons. This can be done with a few tweaks to the icon-theme specification,
> > and in GTK+.
>
> I vaguely recall that once upon a time there were a few stock icons
> with an -rtl suffix, which would be used instead of the normal icons
> in an RTL environment.

Yes stock items automatically displayed the rtl variant if there was 
one. With their deprecation the programmer now has to handle that 
themselves The stock item migration documentation only mentions the ltr 
names though and doesn't point out that it's the programmers 
responsibility to handle rtl variants.

> This approach could be used with named icons too. When you request
> some-icon in an RTL locale, the icon name resolver should first look
> for icon-name-rtl, and if that doesn't exist in the theme, use
> icon-name. I think this solution is both very simple and adequate.

That would be very useful, unless GTK handles this automatically there 
are always going to be cases where someone forgets there's an rtl 
variant that needs to be taken care of. It would also make migrating 
from stock items much easier.

Best Wishes

Phillip Wood