On Friday 21 May 2004 05:10 am, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote: You haven't commented regarding the parenthesis issue:
1. The parenthesis are always reversed if a line begins with one and an Arabic text follows. > Salam, > > OK. Here's the list of bugs I'll send to Trolltech, say next Monday (sorry > for the delay). Please send any needed objections/improvements before that > date. These are mainly Arabic/RTL related bugs, but not only. > > I'll do a wiki page later with the final version. > > There's no specific order in this looong list. > > 1- RTL bugs: > ------------ > > a- After a call to QApplication::setReverseLayout(true), the QLineEdit and > QTexEdit children objects have a default LTR alignment and the developer > has to change the alignment to RTL by hand. The expected behaviour is to > have the alignment of any newly created QLineEdit/QTextEdit objects to RTL > by default after a call to QApplication::setReverseLayout(true). > > b- Almost the same as the point above. The editor of a QSpinBox is aligned > LTR by default, even after a call to QApplication::setReverseLayout(true). > The developer has to: 1- Create a derived class (the editor is a protected > variable...) and 2- Set the alignment by hand. This is not the expected > behaviour. > > c- The text (Arabic or English) of a QComboBox is not aligned on the right > in RTL mode (after a call to QApplication::setReverseLayout(true) :-), and > in that case there isn't even a way to do that by hand. The same goes for > QTable _cells_ alignment. > > d- In RTL mode (again, after a call to QApplication::setReverseLayout(true) > > :-), the status bar messages are not shown, wether they are written in > > English or Arabic characters. In LTR the status bar messages are shown fine > in any character set. > > e- QTable has a mirroring bug. Columns are not shown properly. I signalled > this bug more than a year ago (see bug N16335) and i was told that this is > a known problem (due to QScrollview) and that its resolution won't happen > in the next few releases. However, since then there have been a good deal > of releases :-) and that was not fixed yet. Please consider that using > tables in RTL mode is simply almost useless if this bug persists. > > f- QListViews are not mirrored properly. I suppose this is related somehow > to the point above ? > > g- When using the QT Arabic translation, the OK button text is displayed in > English. I checked that the ts file contains indeed the proper translation > for that button. The texts of other buttons (Apply, Cancel, Defaults) are > displayed in Arabic correctly. > > h- The different QMessageBoxes (question, warning, etc) are not mirrored in > RTL mode... ie icons are on the left, buttons are LTR. Everything should be > RTL wether the text displayed is Arabic or English (that's we we mean by > reveresedLayout after all :-) > > i- The translation of the 'No' button (in QMessageBox) in Arabic is 'ÙØ'. > This is the correct translation that is indeed in the ts file used. > However, the display shows this word doubled, ie 'ÙØ ÙØ'... Is that an > accelerator problem ? > > j- In a QLineEdit the brackets are always reversed if a line begins with > one and an Arabic is inserted following it. > > 2- Misc : > --------- > > a- The method QWidget::sizeHint() does not take account of the widget > caption. Is that done on purpose ? > > 3- Enhancements suggestions: > ---------------------------- > > a- In RTL mode, all alignments should be by default set to right, even if > there is only English text displayed (I'm thinking here about QLabels, > QLineEdits, statusBar etc). However, the developer should be able to change > the alignment after the object's creation. The same goes for LTR mode: > Arabic should be aligned on the left and the developer (and thus the user) > should be able to change the alignment by an easy method. > > b- What about adding to the library some new dialogs (like QFileDialog, > QColorDialog..) in order to select the PenStyle and the BrushStyle (and > even the PenJoinStyle and PenCapStyle) ? :-) > > PS: Is the ts file shipped with QT updated with the library strings ? > > Regards, -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
