https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157961
--- Comment #10 from ady <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #9) > although I think > that people will get used to sheet tabs just following the UI direction, > soon enough, That is not a realistic assumption for some users, IMO. If an old user has dozens of workbooks built a decade (or 2 or 3) ago, they were built with the consideration of the old behavior. And old users adapted their own workflow to the behavior that was available back then, for decades. It is possible that, for new workbooks, the new behavior will be adopted by old users. Or maybe not, because muscle memory and old habits are hard to forget. Is the old worksheet tab “jumping” behavior preferable? Probably not, but after decades, forcing a new behavior on everyone is not going to be welcome, as proven already in recent reports. Both alternatives should be offered; old “jumping worksheet tab” behavior, and UI-locale-dependent behavior. Unfortunately, RTL issues keep piling up faster than they are solved, for decades now. There are several items that cannot be really considered one by one, but as a whole (also proven by recent attempts to solve the problem, only to anger users that do not agree on what the adequate desired behavior should be). * Location of the worksheet tab according to RTL worksheet setting, or IOW the old "jumping" tab when the worksheet is changed from RTL to LTR or vice versa. * Location of the worksheet tab according to UI RTL or UI LTR; no "jumping" worksheet tab. * Behavior of the action of introducing a new worksheet tab; where the new tab will be located?, will it be RTL or LTR?, dependent on what?, what other default settings should users expect regarding the new worksheet and within it, and depending on which settings? * Location (right or left) of Column A, or IOW "direction" of the columns in the Column header from Column A, B, C, and up. * Location of the Row header (which should always cross the Column header wherever the "origin/zero" point would be, near Column A, whichever the location of Column A would be). * Text direction (RTL or LTR) within the cells is another thing; let's not mix. * Text direction within the worksheet tab itself (worksheet name, e.g "Sheet2" in English) is another thing; let's not mix. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
