From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 11016@debbugs.gnu.org, starback@stp.lingfil.uu.se, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#11016: 24.0.94; Right-to-left GUI
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:46:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sq17jm4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1662eba-f776-749d-8c4d-6c265635383d@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:10:20 +0200)
> Cc: 11016@debbugs.gnu.org, starback@stp.lingfil.uu.se
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:10:20 +0200
>
> > Some prefer one, others prefer the other. It should be a separate
> > user option, because there's no one-fits-all solution, and basing the
> > solution on the locale is definitely wrong (one can work in a R2L
> > locale without speaking any R2L language).
>
> We probably should use gtk_menu_bar_set_child_pack_direction right
> after the gtk_menu_bar_new call in create_menus according to that user
> option. Its values would probably be 'left-to-right', 'right-to-left'
> and nil - to leave the decision to the locale.
Once again, it makes no sense to have the UI direction right-to-left
when the labels are all in English. If anything, it looks UUGLEEE!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-03 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-15 0:14 bug#11016: 24.0.94; Right-to-left GUI Per Starbäck
2019-10-03 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 18:10 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-03 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-05 8:41 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-05 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-05 9:56 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-07 11:01 ` Per Starbäck
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