Re: Directional Images

[Timothy Arceri <t_arceri yahoo com au>]

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> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:53:11 +0100
> From: "phil" <phil philandanna no-ip org>
> To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Directional Images
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> On 17/10/13 01:16, Krzysztof Kosi?ski 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.

I randomly came across this bug today which is about documenting rtl for
stock items among other things. I guess this bug should probably be
closed.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97450