From kde-core-devel  Mon Jun 25 08:41:03 2007
From: Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:41:03 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Direction arrows.
Message-Id: <200706251041.07966.ojschmidt () kde ! org>
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Hi Diego!

We do not have a chapter about RTL languages yet, but it would fit in very 
nicely with the planned "Internationalisation" section in the introduction:
http://wiki.openusability.org/guidelines/

If you (or maybe some other translators) are willing help write that section 
or provide us with content, then this would be a great help to us.

Olaf

[ Diego Iastrubni, So., 24. Jun. 2007 ]
> (a little off topic)
>
> I have found that the icons used in Qt3 (amarok, kaffeine) look funky on
> RTL (right to left) desktops. Has anyone started thinking about a fix for
> that problem?
>
> For example, by definition the default play/next/prev icons should not
> reflect the desktop direction, which means even on RTL desktops, the order
> should be (always visually, from left to right)
> 	prev, play, pause stop, next
>
> Unfortunately application developers do not always remember this (or know
> this) and they use the default layout defined by the layout system of the
> toolkit. For example Qt3 will reverse the order of the buttons on my
> amarok.
>
> This shuold be in our HIG. Do we have a chapter about RTL lanaguages...?