GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 596215
Remove gravity hack from get_updated_timeformat
Last modified: 2009-10-06 17:43:59 UTC
The comment in that function says: if (!safe) { /* FIXME: we need this for bug #410169 in pango. We'll be able * to remove this at a later stage. */ time_gravity_format = g_strdup_printf ("<span gravity=\"south\">%s</span>", time_format); } else { time_gravity_format = g_strdup (time_format); } The bug it refers to is fixed now, so this hack should be removed. I'm guessing that this is what's causing this redhat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525371
(In reply to comment #0) > guessing that this is what's causing this redhat bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525371 not according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525371#c7
Doing vertical text "Right" on the panel is not just a matter of orienting chars/words but also the orderings of items in applets. eg for vertical "Applications" should appear above "Places", and for Japanese date should appear above time. My recommendation is drop vertical text completely for now (at least for Japanese until it can be properly done) unless there is a way to do this easily. If we go that way need more input from Chinese and Korean experts for their cases, But fixing the parens and time orientation glitches would at least bring us back to the state of 2.26.
Jens, keep that discussion for bug 596394. This bug is separate.
I removed the hack.