https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157961
--- Comment #8 from William Friedman <[email protected]> --- I wrote a long comment for bug 157784, but in the interim the bug/regression was solved by (thankfully!) reverting the problematic patch. The issue of the ordering of the sheet tabs remains, however. Since, like Mahmoud there, I use an LTR interface but work very frequently with RTL-only and mixed LTR/RTL spreadsheets, I figured an additional opinion might be of use. The simplest and most elegant solution, IMO, would be to make this aspect of the UI easily configurable, e.g., an option could be added, e.g., under "View" there could be an option "Display Sheet Order" with two radio buttons "LTR" and "RTL." The default behavior could follow the user interface unless this option is changed, although I can imagine two other solutions: 1) Follow the directionality of the majority of the sheets (this fails if there are an equal number of LTR and RTL sheets); 2) The first time a sheet of different directionality than the UI is created, a pop up could appear: "Switch direction of sheet order?" (A similar pop up could also deal with the failure case of option 1.) (Regarding Mahmoud's larger complaints about UI tinkering, I am reminded of the lengthy discussion in bug 155494 regarding a change in cursor behavior that many of those commenting thought was poorly-considered. Perhaps there needs to be a "public comment" system for proposed UI changes in which users could give their input and vote.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
