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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RTL and KDE vs. QT
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <snowwolf () one2one-networks ! com>
Date:       2002-06-26 12:48:08
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On Wednesday 26 June 2002 14:18, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 June 2002 13:27, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 17:46, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > After testing different applications with Farsi, we have found that the
> > > level of support for RTL and BiDi differs from appplication to
> > > application.
> > >
> > > KEdit, KBabel and KMail have it implemented best.
> >
> > Did you try KWord? ;-)
> >
> > > It is almost not working in Kate.
> > > Is there any specific guideline or recommendation on how to implement
> > > and support BiDi and RTL in KDE applications? Is the problem solved in
> > > Qt or KDE level?
> >
> > Mostly Qt. But KDE apps which implement their own text layout stuff need
> > to reimplement/reuse Qt's mechanism.
> >
> > > Having a recommendation (a HOWTO?) on how to BiDi enable KDE (and Qt)
> > > applications would help very much to unify the approach.
> >
> > For KWord I based everything on Qt's approach.
>
> I have testet various application in reverse-english. There is a few KDE
> widgets that currently needs work. Especially the trees used in kcontrol,
> kmail and konqueror, and the kmenu in kicker. The rest of the problems I
> have encountered have been very easy to fix.
>
Sorry, I just checked. Kmenu does reverse now. Great work!
 
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