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Bug 508192 - Text chopped off in most Gtk dialogs when text is RTL
Text chopped off in most Gtk dialogs when text is RTL
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: Arabic
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-09 01:45 UTC by Djihed Afifi
Modified: 2008-10-03 05:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Test case (701 bytes, text/plain)
2008-01-09 01:47 UTC, Djihed Afifi 		Details
View, (16.62 KB, image/png)
2008-01-09 01:48 UTC, Djihed Afifi 		Details
Another instance. (43.03 KB, image/png)
2008-01-09 23:49 UTC, Djihed Afifi 		Details
Fixed screenshot (17.52 KB, image/png)
2008-10-03 05:54 UTC, Khaled Hosny 		Details

Description Djihed Afifi 2008-01-09 01:45:40 UTC 
Dialogs: Warnings, Errors, etc always contain chopped off text when the text is of an RTL language like Arabic.

I will attach a test case, and a screenshot.

This affects a wide range of applications as you can imagine.
Comment 1 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-09 01:47:40 UTC 
Created attachment 102432 [details]
Test case
Comment 2 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-09 01:48:52 UTC 
Created attachment 102433 [details]
View,

Note the chopped text on the right. It doesn't matter whether the locale was RTL or LTR. RTL text is always chopped.
Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-01-09 04:48:40 UTC 
Humm, weird.  I have guesses for the case that it was a one pixel off.  But not for this.
Comment 4 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-09 23:49:06 UTC 
Created attachment 102498 [details]
Another instance.

This is another instance of this. It appears to me that his behaviour happens when text shares space with an image.
Comment 5 Djihed Afifi 2008-08-12 00:39:54 UTC 
Any idea why this happens?

This is really, really ugly on RTL systems. I see it on an hour basic on GTK dialogs.
Comment 6 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-09-09 03:25:56 UTC 
I can't reproduce this using your test case btw.
Comment 7 Khaled Hosny 2008-10-02 08:25:30 UTC 
I can't reproduce it too, though I'm sure I'd encountered it before, so I think this bug is fixed by now.
Comment 8 Khaled Hosny 2008-10-03 05:54:27 UTC 
Created attachment 119838 [details]
Fixed screenshot

Screenshot of te test case, under gnome 2.24. The text appears fine.