GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 78921
right alignment of file names for Arabic
Last modified: 2006-09-29 19:03:20 UTC
Package: nautilus Severity: enhancement Version: 1.1.12 Synopsis: right alignment of file names for Arabic Bugzilla-Product: nautilus Bugzilla-Component: View as List Description: It would be really nice to be able to align filenames in Nautilus' list view to the right. This is much more readable when the file names are in languages that write from the right to the left (Arabic, Hebrew and others). Ideally this option would be on a per-directory basis, so exoticly and ordinary named files can coexist on one system without the need to toggle the alignment manually all the time. An advanced version would probably have three options: left, right, auto-detect The next step could be to add support for even more exotic languages that write vertically... ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-04-17 05:08 ------- Unknown version 1.1.x in product nautilus. Setting version to the default, "unspecified". The original reporter (hsmoreson@yahoo.fr) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Thanks for your bug report! I disagree that this should be toggled on a directory basis. It seems to work correctly when using a hebrew locale, i.e. the whole interface is mirrored including the file names which are right-aligned. Do you suggest that if in an LTR locale we encounter RTL strings, they should be right-aligned as well?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Hep, please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information Christian asked for. Thanks!