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Bug 357828 - Show caret direction when user have bidi keyboard layouts
Show caret direction when user have bidi keyboard layouts
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTextView
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on: BidiKeyboard
Blocks: Persian
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-26 14:20 UTC by Behnam Esfahbod
Modified: 2018-02-10 03:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Behnam Esfahbod 2006-09-26 14:20:55 UTC 
gdk_keymap_have_bidi_directions allows to detect if user have keyboards layouts in both directions.  So now we can show turn caret direction marker when user have bidi layouts.

Not that the direction marker is to help user easily realize which keyboard layout is active.

This behavior is what Windows and Mozilla do already.
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-09-26 17:01:49 UTC 
I don't like to see the direction caret all the time.  It should be used only if two directions are involved.  Like if the caret is on a direction boundary (like it does today), or if you are on LTR text, but have an RTL keyboard layout selected.

As for an empty box, we already align it according to the layout direction, so there's no ambiguity there.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 03:46:08 UTC 
We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are closing bugs that haven't seen activity in more than 5 years. If this issue is still imporant to you and
still relevant with GTK+ 3.22 or master, please consider creating a gitlab issue
for it.