[Thunar-dev] RTL Languages and Thunar

[Yo'av Moshe]

Well, I've updated my xfce4-dev-tools from SVN an got it to compile,
and yes - it's working great.

Also, it even works with the "Text beside icons", where Nautilus fails.

Thanks alot, I can finally switch :)

Yo'av.

On 2/12/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Yo'av Moshe wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not sure if I got you right, but I think I fixed this recently (Pango
> tried to detect the direction automatically, instead of using the text
> direction from the Gtk setting for the icon view).
>
> You can try this with older Thunar versions, adding a line
>
>  pango_layout_set_auto_dir (text_renderer->layout, FALSE);
>
> to thunar_text_renderer_set_widget() in thunar-text-renderer.c, after
> the pango layout is created, i.e. after the line
>
>  text_renderer->layout = pango_layout_new (context);
>
> > Yo'av.
>
> Benedikt
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