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Bug 509073 - Recent files wrong direction when in RTL with latin file names
Recent files wrong direction when in RTL with latin file names
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: Arabic
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-13 03:25 UTC by Djihed Afifi
Modified: 2016-11-26 15:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
Force recent list to be RTL for RTL languages. (885 bytes, patch)
2008-01-13 03:26 UTC, Djihed Afifi 		none Details | Review
Screenshot describing problem. (66.32 KB, image/png)
2008-01-13 03:30 UTC, Djihed Afifi 		  Details

Description Djihed Afifi 2008-01-13 03:25:22 UTC 
In the recent list menu in gedit, when the filename is in latin this causes the text to be flipped to RTL. Not good for RTL languages.

Test with: LC_ALL=ar_DZ.UTF8

I will attach a fix that adds an RLM character when in RTL mode. And a screenshot of the difference.
Comment 1 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-13 03:26:22 UTC 
Created attachment 102706 [details] [review]
Force recent list to be RTL for RTL languages.
Comment 2 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-13 03:30:32 UTC 
Created attachment 102707 [details]
Screenshot describing problem.
Comment 3 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-13 03:54:15 UTC 
previous title is non-sense.
Comment 4 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2008-01-13 13:26:32 UTC 
I'd like to get decision on this problem, evince patch is applied but this probably should go into other languages.
Comment 5 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-13 13:48:03 UTC 
Other languages?

The RTL test catches all languages that are RTL: Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, etc... So the fix is for all of them.

I probably didn't understand your comment.
Comment 6 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2008-01-13 13:56:48 UTC 
other programs, sorry. Totem uses recent files for example.
Comment 7 Djihed Afifi 2008-01-13 14:21:17 UTC 
I believe the totem bug is still that of totem. bug #509080 . Bastien made it GTK+, but I'm waiting for his input after my comment.

Totem has the recent files list, it prepends a digit as a shortcut (_%d) and then creates the menu item with that file name, that is done in totem, hence it'll need to be flipped there I believe.
Comment 8 Kevin Hagner 2016-11-26 15:36:51 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore by GNOME developers. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes by GNOME developers for the version that you use. GTK3 has completely changed the way of displaying menu items and doesn't print number anymore before the list of last edited files.

By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME.

Please feel free to reopen this bug report if the problem still occurs with a recent version of GNOME, or feel free to report this bug in the bug tracking system of your Linux distribution if your distribution still supports the version that you are using.