Re: Pango Status Report, 4 Apr 2000

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 07:20:26PM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote:

> > I wonder if Window Managers can be made aware of that (maybe a new
> > WM hint would be needed to tell that a window is in RTL mode (buttons
> > are mirroredand the title right justified); in other words what is still
> > missing are widgets that need to be redrawn differently and not only put
> > at another palce, when changed to RTL mode)
> 
> Speaking from experience, I'm not sure this is a good idea. Win95 had
> the Hebrew version mirroring stuff all over the place: it was horrible.
> RTL-language speakers are used to certain button locations already:
> there's no need to retrain them.

That should be a configurable option then; the default being to mirror for
RTL languages; but the user having the possibility to explicitely tell
otherwise if he wants to.

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Pablo Saratxaga

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