GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 746831
Support vertical text
Last modified: 2017-08-24 23:59:22 UTC
They still Japanese vertical text writing out of the support in many GUI world. Qt,iOS,AOSP will never support if the others don't support it. Japanese is traditionally write from top to bottom,right to left. These days,most writings is written horizonal,because of Windows and MSO. For the freedom of speech,I stand up to fight for the culture. At first,I want to implement vertical textview.
So,Mr.Tagoh,what do you think of this challenge? Is this easy? To add a widget is easier in Gtk than in the other toolkits for me, but what will be the main problem?
Can you explain more details what is inconvenient in current implementation and how you are going to address it. that sounds quite vague at this moment. not even sure if you want to improve existing widgets or want to add a custom widget for what you want. So it's hard to estimate how long it take a time to accomplish, what is the task for it.
In current status, people should create a widget by themselves. As it is easy for some of them, but it is also true that they don't have any standard. I am considering which option, to add a new widget or to add a feature to the exiting,the custom one is less dangerous in what caused by updating. However it is, I think the latter one is the better. The reason is it need less changes to a interface of an application. The second reason is RL writing system. It is also supprted in most text widgets and they are not custom. Ruby is also japanese original text feature ,but I don't care it this time. As it is a problem of font,I think. they should have been supported same as the accent charactaristics be done.
I agreed with improving the existing widgets. though I can't still figure out how it is easy/hard to do. can you clarify the detailed scope/goal of your idea?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 669542 ***