[Bug 325324] Re: Hebrew not displayed correctly in terminal

2009-02-24 Thread Shlomil
considered temporary solutions until the translation is officially removed from CLI apps. I'm thinking of implementing #2 for the next Hebrew Remix since I find current status of Hebrew in Ubuntu's console very annoying. Regards, Shlomil. -- Hebrew not displayed correctly in terminal h

[Bug 562130] Re: Selecting an RTL language should install and RTL capable terminal emulator

2010-04-21 Thread Shlomil
If Konsole works well then this bug should be fixed by upstream Gnome-terminal developers https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321490 ... Sounds like it's not going to happen, but maybe Gnome devs will change their minds given enough community pressure. I'm pretty much against includin

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-04-27 Thread Shlomil
Tested 2.2.23 and text is still truncated in welcome screens and TZ- Select screens. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New -- Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560114 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-05-02 Thread Shlomil
This bug had the honor of being mentioned in a review by one of the major and most popular Israeli newspapers aka YNet - (warning - lots of flash ahead): http://tinyurl.com/ynet-10-04-article-translated The author refers to is as a "slight problem of the alignment to right". Other that this annoy

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-02-20 Thread Shlomil
I tested the daily lucid build and Hebrew is displayed fine in the boot menu but the language name (which appears in the list of languages to pick from) is reversed. in previous versions is was labeled as "Hebrew" but now its labeled as תירבע again which means "Hebrew" written backwards. This was

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-02-20 Thread Shlomil
In the file langnames.inc , line 25 is : [ "he" "he_IL" "עברית" ] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/gfxboot-theme- ubuntu/mainline/revision/398 We should change it to תירבע (reverse the word). Should I create a bzr branch for such a tiny fix? is this file auto-generated somewhere? --

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-02-20 Thread Shlomil
** Changed in: gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Incomplete -- Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212491 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 316171] Re: List of updates aligned left

2010-01-06 Thread Shlomil
Setting the treeview's direction to be fixed on TEXT_DIR_LTR will fix the issue. By that we assume that package names and descriptions will always be in English. To fix it on LTR simply add the line: self.treeview_update.set_direction(gtk.TEXT_DIR_LTR) after the treeview's creation. ( http://

[Bug 316171] Re: List of updates aligned left

2010-01-06 Thread Shlomil
** Branch linked: lp:~shlomister/update-manager/treeview-update-ltr -- List of updates aligned left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316171 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-01-06 Thread Shlomil
** Branch linked: lp:~shlomister/gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/hebrew-fix -- Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212491 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 429621] Re: keyboard layout is flipped when installation is in RTL language

2010-01-06 Thread Shlomil
Orgad, I tested on a Lucid snapshot and I don't really understand the problem. What version are you using? What is the meaning of "flipped" test area. What "Esc" is on the right? The test area direction is determined by the first char with strong direction. This is GNOME behavior and not a bug.

[Bug 316171] Re: List of updates aligned left

2010-01-07 Thread Shlomil
AFAIK, currently it's waiting to be reviewed by one of the Ubuntu Core Development Team memebers. Since it's a very simple, single-line fix, I hope it'll get merged in time for 10.04 LTS. -- List of updates aligned left https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316171 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-01-07 Thread Shlomil
> IMHO it's probably worth making sure the text is right-way-round as a first > step, > even if the shaping still needs to be implemented. The proposed patch will fix Arabic text direction but with no char shaping (as can be seen in the attached screenshot in which I enabled Arabic again). It s

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-01-07 Thread Shlomil
** Attachment added: "Arabic gfxboot with shaping .. but no displayable fonts" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37596361/arabic_gfxboot_with_join_wtf_no_fonts.png -- Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212491 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-02-23 Thread Shlomil
After testing today the daily snapshot I can confirm that this issue is resolved. Thank you Colin and everybody else who helped. -- Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212491 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 560114] [NEW] Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-04-10 Thread Shlomil
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity In Ubiquity (GTK), after selecting Hebrew (or any other Right To Left language) the entire GUI will be flipped and the text displayed on the first screen is truncated. It looks like the language selector overlaps the welcome text. Steps to repro

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-04-10 Thread Shlomil
** Attachment added: "Screenshot of ubuntu installer started from the livecd desktop" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43696112/screenshot-ubiquity-hebrew-rtl-problem.png ** Attachment added: "Casper.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43691262/Casper.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-04-10 Thread Shlomil
** Attachment added: "Ubuntu 10.04 welcome screen after selecting Hebrew" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43696813/Screenshot-hebrew-welcome-screen.png -- Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560114 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-04-16 Thread Shlomil
tested with 2.2.18 Hebrew text still gets truncated. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New -- Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560114 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2010-04-16 Thread Shlomil
It seems like when commenting out the following line (line 85 at gtk_ui.py) : layout.set_width(allocation.width * pango.SCALE) The Hebrew text is displayed perfectly. Evan, the fix you published deals with a vertical fitting issue while this bug is about horizontal truncating of the text. if y

[Bug 538372] Re: title should be centered in the new Ubuntu 10.04 themes

2010-03-14 Thread Shlomil
The decision to allign the title was made considering varuois usability issues and the set of mind Ubuntu design people had so I think we\ll have to conform and just check that it works OK in RTL layout. >From watching your screenshot (I didn't test it yet by myself) I think the real bug here is t

[Bug 562130] Re: Selecting an RTL language should install RTL capable terminal emulator

2010-04-22 Thread Shlomil
Usama: Yes. MLTerm is ugly - it doesn't have Gome-terminal's options, menu, scroll-bar, opacity and other features. The reason is simple enough - it's not a Gnome application. it was written directly in X API (AFAIK). If MLTerm will be ever included in RTL installations by default as this bug su

[Bug 538372] Re: new Ubuntu 10.04 themes don't properly support RTL languages

2010-04-22 Thread Shlomil
Haggai, can you please provide a like to the patch/bug report that you sent upstream? -- new Ubuntu 10.04 themes don't properly support RTL languages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538372 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 371257] Re: Truncated elements in dialog he_IL

2010-04-22 Thread Shlomil
I can confirm that this bug still exists on Lucid. -- Truncated elements in dialog he_IL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371257 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com htt

[Bug 538372] Re: new Ubuntu 10.04 themes don't properly support RTL languages

2010-05-17 Thread Shlomil
I found this related post in my RSS reader: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2010/05/14/justified-and-ancient/ -- new Ubuntu 10.04 themes don't properly support RTL languages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538372 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 538372] Re: new Ubuntu 10.04 themes don't properly support RTL languages

2010-03-20 Thread Shlomil
Wasn't this bug fixed a long time ago. Are we dealing here with a regression in Metacity? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92212 Maybr you guys should contact Yair Hershkovitz (author of previous fixes) before you try to patch it and ask for his opinion... ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2010-01-04 Thread Shlomil
hi, 1. I Committed a branch called "hebrew-fix" using bzr in my own user branches. I could not commit it under ubuntu-core-dev. I guess I don't have the permissions to do so: $ bzr push sftp://shlomis...@bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/gfxboot-theme-ubuntu/hebrew-fix bzr: ERROR: Permission

[Bug 429621] Re: keyboard layout is flipped when installation is in RTL language

2010-01-13 Thread Shlomil
Thanks for the comment & additional information. You forgot to mention you use Kubuntu in your initial bug report... I could not reproduce on Ubuntu because (AFAIK) there is no keyboard display in Ubuntu's installation. This is probably caused by direction property set to RTL (the system default

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2009-12-25 Thread Shlomil
IMO, Bidi algorithm implementation is not required here because we have no need to read Hebrew/Arabic user input in the boot loader. We just have to display the text in a readable manner. For this, all we have to do is reverse the text according to the bidi algorithm and display it visually. This c

[Bug 212491] Re: Live CD, first screen, Hebrew not correctly displayed

2009-12-25 Thread Shlomil
As you can see in the attached image, Hebrew text is displayed correctly. I guess some string are still in English because new translation havn't been fully exported yet. ** Attachment added: "gfx-boot-fix.jpg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37181399/gfx-boot-fix.jpg -- Live CD, first screen,

[Bug 1697377] Re: Change TextBoxes Direction for RTL languages

2018-04-08 Thread Shlomil
I Wrote about it in the past (...2011!). http://shlomil.blogspot.co.il/2011/12/changing-text-direction-and-gnome.html Nobody really cared back than. So, as I wrote in the blog above, I think this issue can be solved as an input method plugin (or a patch to Gnome) which will let you control the inv

[Bug 1697377] Re: Change TextBoxes Direction for RTL languages

2018-04-11 Thread Shlomil
Hi Reza, Issues regarding GTK should be reported in the upstream issue tracker. Which seems to be: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues Maybe you should first have a chat with Behdad Esfahbod regarding this issue. Good luck! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 798768] Re: Hebrew (RTL) texts in Ubiquity cut on the right side

2011-07-10 Thread Shlomil
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 560114 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560114 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 560114 Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2011-07-11 Thread Shlomil
Yaron: What button are you referring to? The cause for the problem is (IMO) the 'layout.set_width' line. Last time I tried (which was about a year ago), removing this line solves the problem. Some hints from the devs regarding the role of this line might help as it seems that removing it doesn't

[Bug 571822] Re: Empathy allign RTL text as LTR text on messenger

2010-09-26 Thread Shlomil
This bug sound like an upstream bug and I'll take a "wild" guess and say the fix is probably the same one I did in Pidgin a few years ago: http://shlomil.blogspot.com/2007/02/patch-to-fix-some-bidi-text-issues-in.html RL=1 should be passed for RTL messages in MSN protocol. Wireshark can be used t

[Bug 733087] Re: software ratings (stars) override package name in right to left encoding

2011-03-11 Thread Shlomil
** Tags added: rtl -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733087 Title: software ratings (stars) override package name in right to left encoding -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@li

[Bug 733087] Re: software ratings (stars) override package name in right to left encoding

2011-03-11 Thread Shlomil
** Tags added: arabic hebrew i18n l10n persian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733087 Title: software ratings (stars) override package name in right to left encoding -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 371257] Re: [upstream] Truncated elements in dialog he_IL

2011-09-15 Thread Shlomil
I just ran lowriter on Oneiric Beta1 (Hebrew GUI) and the problem still exists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371257 Title: [upstream] Truncated elements in dialog he_IL To manage n

[Bug 560114] Re: Truncated text in Ubiquity after selecting Hebrew

2011-09-15 Thread Shlomil
Hi Dovix, I can confirm that this bug seem to have been solved in Oneiric Beta1 . Probably the move to Gnome3 included some fix for it. Since we have 2 confirmations that this bug doesn't appear on 11.10Beta1 we should probably close it. I just wonder who/what fixed it. Offtopic: The sentence i

[Bug 733087] Re: software ratings (stars) override package name in right to left encoding

2011-09-15 Thread Shlomil
Bug still exists on Oneiric Beta 1, Software Center version 4.1.22 . Regression? ** Attachment added: "stars-overlapping-in-hebrew.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/733087/+attachment/2410719/+files/stars-overlapping-in-hebrew.png -- You received this bug

[Bug 851616] Re: Regression - software center some texts messed up (RTL)

2011-09-16 Thread Shlomil
Seems to me like the placement of the stars is prefect - for example, if you look at the highlighted selection in the above screenshot you will see that there's a big space from the right to the beginning of the label. If you would align the string to the right then is looks like there's enough

[Bug 263822] Re: RTL (right to left) support in terminal (BiDi)

2011-01-01 Thread Shlomil
priority in the Alternatives list, which will make MLTerm default when installed. Shlomil -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263822 Title: RTL (right to left) support in terminal (BiDi

[Bug 571822] Re: Empathy allign RTL text as LTR text on messenger

2010-11-09 Thread Shlomil
Well, Going by the GNOME logic (which I dislike .. sigh ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167354 )) .. the auto-detection should be just fine (option C). The grandmothers using Gnome should be smart enough to insert the Invisible Unicode LRM/RLM characters when auto-detection goes w

[Bug 603022] Re: [MIR] mlterm

2010-07-28 Thread Shlomil
>>Personal opinion<< MLTerm is not a regualr GNOME application and therefore looks ugly and doesn't fit well in the (GNOME based) Ubuntu echo system. Look at it's scrollbar for example - it doesn't use the GNOME theme for drawing but use some old X decoration. Moreover, I havn't seen many users

Re: [Bug 603022] Re: [MIR] mlterm

2010-07-28 Thread Shlomil
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Alexander Sack wrote: >  2. use console to execute installation instructions or config file >    adjustments to change the behaviour of the system. I think you got it right but I would like to note (regarding 2) that if a console program (with existing RTL transla

[Bug 119393] Re: gfxboot doesn't render Arabic text correctly

2010-06-14 Thread Shlomil
Now with Fribidi 0.19.2 in Ubuntu , I think that fixing this issue is a matter of doing the following: 1. Passing Arabic string through the Fribidi program during package build time like we did in LP: #212491 (that should be very easy) 2. making sure all Arabic fonts including shaped ones are exp