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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kcmkicker and RTL Languages
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-06-22 19:51:31
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On June 22, 2002 01:24 pm, Meni Livne wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I didn't know whether I should post this here or to kde-devel, but since
> this is related to the recent usability changes in the Kicker control
> module, I eventually decided to go with this list.
>
> These changes really are a great improvement, however, it is a shame that
> one important aspect of usability was overlooked, and that is - support for
> right-to-left languages. There is just a small problem in the Arrangement
> tab, in which the 9 buttons that determine the position of the panel behave
> the opposite of expected. There is no need to change KDE's language
> settings to test this. You can just run the application with the --reverse
> argument, and it should come up reversed, just like when using it with an
> RTL language.
>
> I would have fixed this myself, but it seems to involve designer .ui files,
> which I am not too familiar with, and I don't want to mess anything up...

hrm... the fix is probably going to have to go into the actual code (e.g. 
positiontab_impl.cpp) unless there is a way to override RTL handling on a 
specific (set of) widget(s) ... annoying.

> Anyway, it would be great if this issue could be dealt with and taken into
> account in the future when designing applications. Like I said, it's only a
> matter of running your application with a certain argument and doing some
> tests.

"only"

developers could spend all day testing everything they write under every 
possible combination of features that they never actually use, and we'd still 
miss some things. that's why users testing things, such as you have done, is 
and will continue to be important.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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