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bug#11016: 24.0.94; Right-to-left GUI
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#11016: 24.0.94; Right-to-left GUI |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:46:11 +0300 |
> 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!