I offered a patch for this issue to metacity in 2010 (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612940), that would mirror the window title. They didn't accept it, since they said it should have been up to the theme designer to choose whether to mirror, or to implement a different theme for RTL. The first method would work for Ubuntu's theme, but not for more complicated themes such as Crux. I tried to start discussing the extensions required to the theme files, but never got any response.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #612940 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612940 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533200 Title: Window title misaligned in RTL languages Status in “light-themes” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: light-themes 0.1.5.9 light-themes 0.1.8.23, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1 1. Set up a user account that uses a right-to-left language, such as Arabic. 2. Log in to that account. 3. Open any window. What you see: The title is on the left. What you should see: The title is on the right. (At least, as long as it is on the left in LTR languages.) (This bug report previously also covered poor appearance of the well for the title bar buttons, which is now fixed.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/533200/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
