On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Oren Held wrote: > Hello, > > gtk2/gnome2 has a good hebrew support: It both supports bidi internally > (the pango lib does it, actually), and has support for right-to-left > windows. Just like the hebrew versions of windows (not hebrew enabled, > the real hebrew versions). > > Well, personally I think that RTLed-windows are ugly. It's unnatural, at > least in most cases, when most of the text inside is english anyway. > One example is xchat (the 1.9.x development tree, which is based on > gtk2)- on default it's running in rtl mode (the input-line is RTLed, > even when you type in english), and unlike windows, you cannot change it > to be ltr using ctrl+shift (maybe there's a key that I don't know?). > > I think that pango/gtk2 should be using some environment variable, in a > similarway to LC_CTYPE, a gtkrc configuration option, which allows > forcing ltr, or at least, a hotkey which flips the typing direction. > > Should I suggest these to pango's developers (which of the above 3 > options)? Would anybody do it by himself? or am I stupid and these > features already exist?
First of all, this is an issue of gtk and not pango. Pango only does the rendering. I don't recall how to modify that globally. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
