[Thunar-dev] RTL Languages and Thunar

[Yo'av Moshe]

Hello.
This is a problem I saw on an old Thunar version, but I don't believe
it's fixed since I never saw it being reported. I never succsed
compiling xfce-dev-tools, so I can't check it...

It's a bit hard to explain, but I'll do my best.

I'm a native Hebrew speaker. It's an RTL language - it's written from
Right to Left.

When GTK+ sees an RTL locale setted, it aligns the window as
apropriate. Text goes from right to left, and so are all the widgets.
This is where the problem rises: If I start Thunar with an RTL locale
(e.g. he_IL), I can see only hebrew labels beneath the icons. The
English ones are messed up - not placed in the correctly. If Thunar is
started with an LTR locale (en_US), only english labels are shown
right, and the hebrew ones are placed out-of-place.

The result is that for people who use RTL languages (Mostly Hebrew and
Arabic, AFAIK), Thunar isn't quite usable.

Yo'av.