Re: Right-to-left Gnome

[Hicham Amaoui <amaoui altern org>]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Kaixo!
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 05:06:40PM +0430, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>  
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> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Hicham Amaoui wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > The widget mirroring feature doesn't work very well, so I disabled it.  
> > > (translating a string in gtk+.po to RTL or LTR).
> > >      
> > So it's already there. Eases my mind.
> >    
>
> The mirroring support in Gtk+ is the best support I have ever seen (well,
> I don't know how well (ot how bad) latest Windows and MacOS do); but it is
> still not perfect.
Have you seen arabic support in Qt/KDE3? I think it's perfect :-)
Some screenshots:
http://amaoui.free.fr/kde3/images/applications.jpeg
http://amaoui.free.fr/kde3/images/konqueror1.jpeg
http://amaoui.free.fr/kde3/images/kmail2.jpeg
http://amaoui.free.fr/kde3/images/controlcenter2.jpeg

More on http://amaoui.free.fr/kde3/index.html

> Probably it will improve with time and the gain in experience of the
> developpers; remember that for most of them it is the first time they
> experience that world of bidirectionality at the widget level (and even
> at the whole desktop level, in fact)
>
>  
>
> > I'll definitely need that. I believe we should put some time for defining 
> > a standard behavior and implementing it. Would you consider creating a 
> > list of existing problems?
> >    
>
> There is/was a document somewhere on the internet describing all the
> things needed for a real arabized system, far beyond the mere ability
> to just be able to display bidi text.
>
> I've however forgot the title name of such document and so can't find 
> it again.
>
> What I remember however is that the whole desktop paradigm, everything 
> visible on screen, should follow the right-to-left rule, as that is
> how people using those languages is accostumed to do eye-motion (even when
> looking at a non-textual picture for example; or so I've been told);
> that includes placement of buttons in title bars, icons on the background
> of the desktop, the placement of menus and icons in the menu/toolbars, 
> cursor bieng on the right by default on text input fields etc.
>
> there may be some exceptions, for example the input field for url addresses
> of a web browser should be better in ltr by default; that however should
> be investigated trough experience, as until now no complete rtl-supporting
> system has ever been used on a large scale, or has it ?
>
> Thanks
>
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> > 	
> > roozbeh
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