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 suggests then it should be known and agreed that it's only a temporary solution - a workaround for the real problem.
Besides that, as Yaron said before, I think people are entitled to hold their own opinion and speak of it publicly. You have a different opinion and I respect that. Yaron: If we want to fix Gnome-terminal we should first come up with a design that Behdad Esfahbod will approve. He will accept a patch only if it is using the "right approach" to solve the problem. Behdad claims that none of the existing terminal emulators he knows solve the problem correctly. I can only guess that he knows about the existence of MLTerm as RTL enabled terminal and he probably found some flaws in it's methods of dealing with RTL text. -- Selecting an RTL language should install RTL capable terminal emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562130 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Arabic Language Translation Team, which is a direct subscriber. Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: language-selector the default terminal gnome-terminal which is using vte is not able to display RTL text like Arabic,Farsi, Urdu or Hebrew and it's a known bug that is not likly to be fixed at all as vte developer said. see bug #263822 How ever Mlterm is ready to support variant of scripts including Arabic ,Hebrew and even Chinese. see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mlterm problem: no terminal with RTL support fix: installing Mlterm for RTL by default ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: language-selector 0.5.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.29-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic-pae i686 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 4190bdfb1b8df71969b6cbad70f1beb6 CheckboxSystem: 9c26adf6eed2f681ba41f94dd24c07e4 Date: Tue Apr 13 11:38:45 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=ar_SA.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: language-selector _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
