On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:52 +0200, Arafat Medini wrote: > Hi all, > > Following the advice of Christian Rose of the i18n team I am contacting > you the Evo hackers to look at this issue. So I hope this mail doesn't > generate some flames as I'll try to be as polite as possible ;) > the flames in the previous thread were started by your mail, which said 'evo developers dont care about arabic because they don't use it', which, as I pointed out in my answer, is not true at all.
> Evolution has bad rtl support as seen in this screen: > > http://www.silverpen.de/evo.png > > The task/mail/contact/calendar widgets are not present and many bars are > not flipped the right way. > could you show us shots for the calendar/contact/tasks widgets? At least for the calendar views, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't show up. > Under this id you can find the bug which was already reported: 56693 > I've included a detailed descriptionn at the end of the page as my last > comment on the bug. And there is already a patch for flipping icons in > the right order. > > I want to lobby for this bug because of the two following reasons: > > More then 50 countries use rtl scripts (without counting the islamic > countries which use Arabic as a second or third language), like Arabic > hebrew persian etc... rtl using countries are making a really big part > of our world. It wouldn't be good if those ppl would have to wait longer > for such a great app till it becomes usable for them. > The second reason is that the interface looks messy which degrades the > overall desktop experience for a user when using gnome. To have a high > quality desktop I think it should be very good to have such an important > app behaving correctly under the corresponding locale. > > the majority will look at Evo first place when installing gnome 2.8 so > having a decent looking app is not so wrong ;) > > So I really hope this bug gets your attention. And gets resolved for > 2.8! > The translation is nearly done too (80%) so I hope this gets spin. > > many thanx for reading. And I hope my mail was friendly enough to not > make anyone angry ;) > this time I'm sure no one will be angry, given that this is quite different from the 'evo developers dont care about arabic' thing :-) cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
