Moving all the RTL flipping bugs to the 2.4.0 milestone; in some
cases the changes should be easy to do. (GtkPaned comes to mind)
In those cases, we can move the bugs back to 2.2.0 if patches occur.

Owen already fixed forward and back (see bug 92211), but I think 
all icons involving 
horizontal arrows need similar treatment. 
These
are:

certainly:
GTK_STOCK_GOTO_FIRST
GTK_STOCK_GOTO_LAST

probably:
GTK_STOCK_JUMP_TO
GTK_STOCK_QUIT

maybe:
GTK_STOCK_REDO
GTK_STOCK_REVERT_TO_SAVED
GTK_STOCK_UNDELETE
GTK_STOCK_UNDO

probably 
not:
GTK_STOCK_OK
GTK_STOCK_REFRESH

Go to 

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-stock-items.html
for a 
quick overview of the stock icons.

I probably need help from artists and native 
RTL speakers for progress on this (beyond fixing goto_first/goto_last).

I am a Hebrew speaker, and a developer specialised in i18n matters.
My advice is that the following stock icons must be swapped, but only 
when the whole geometry of the window is made RTL (I omit the 
GTK_STOCK prefix common to all items):

GOTO_FIRST <==>  GOTO_LAST
GO_BACK  <==>  GO_FORWARD
JUMP_TO
REVERT_TO_SAVED

UNDO and REDO are debatable.  They are not symmetrized in the Hebrew-
localized GUI for MS Word, so it is probably best to leave them as-is.


I have a vaguely related suggestion: it seems that gtk supports 
JUSTIFY_LEFT and JUSTIFY_RIGHT.  I suggest to add JUSTIFY_START and 
JUSTIFY_END.  JUSTIFY_START is equivalent to JUSTIFY_LEFT in a LTR 
geometry, and to JUSTIFY_RIGHT in a RTL geometry.  JUSTIFY_END is the 
opposite.

Matitiahu Allouche

But REVERT_TO_SAVED, UNDELETE and UNDO all share the same arrow to
indicate a "undo"-kind of operation. So if we flip one of them, we
surely have to flip all for consistency ? And then we also have to
flip REDO, since the main feature of REDO is that its arrow is in the
opposite direction to UNDO...

You don't think that QUIT should be flipped ?

Created attachment 11944 [details] [review]
patch flipping GOTO_FIRST, GOTO_LAST and JUMP_TO

Created attachment 11945 [details]
stock_jump_to_rtl_16.png

Created attachment 11946 [details]
stock_jump_to_rtl_24.png

I'm going to attach a patch which additionally flips UNDO and REDO; it
should probably not be applied without also flipping UNDELETE and
REVERT_TO_SAVED (for consistency reasons as explained above). 

However, properly flipping UNDELETE and REVERT_TO_SAVED is probably
impossible without the .xcf sources, which I don't have...

Maybe some of the famous gnome artists can come to my rescue here...

Created attachment 11947 [details] [review]
patch which additionally flips UNDO and REDO

Created attachment 11948 [details]
stock_undo_rtl_16.png

Created attachment 11949 [details]
stock_undo_rtl_24.png

Created attachment 11950 [details]
stock_redo_rtl_16.png

Created attachment 11951 [details]
stock_redo_rtl_24.png

First patch (FIRST, LAST, JUMP_TO) committed now.

Any chance to get hold of .xcfs for UNDELETE and REVERT_TO_SAVED, or 
for versions 
with flipped arrows ?

Removing PATCH, as all attached patches have been committed. Still
waiting for a word from the artists...

Created attachment 17261 [details]
libgnomeui-stock.tar

Oops, why did I attach _that_? Too late I guess ;) Proper set follows

Created attachment 17263 [details]
stock-part.tar

Wouldn it make sense to actually distribute the .xcf's with gtk+? It 
seems reasonable to ship with the "source" to the stock icons.

Thanks Jakub. I have delivered all needed rtl variants to HEAD now.