The bottom panel should be horizontally flipped too - for consistency's sake and as it is more logical for the open applications to align to the right.
I must stress that this is indeed a severe problem when it comes to usability in RTL languages - users see the panel before anything else and such a problem would, in there eyes, reflect the rest of the system. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #149886 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149886 ** Also affects: gnome-panel (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149886 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Rong direction using a RTL language pack https://launchpad.net/bugs/49898 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs