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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!





  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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