Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: adium-theme-ubuntu
Hi,
Currently, the ubuntu theme in empathy is hardcoded towards
conversations with left-to-right directionality. Even if the messages
are with right-to-left directionality, for example, in Hebrew or Arabic,
the message is left aligned, and the bubble appears to the right of the
avatar.
In my opinion, the best way to support these languages would be to
somehow run pango_get_base_dir on each message, and expose this
information to the theme. The theme could for example set a CSS class
for messages that are right-to-left, and then format them correctly
using the CSS.
An alternative solution, would be to detect the directionality according
to the user's locale. This would be little less useful in my opinion,
because one user might have a conversation in a left-to-right language,
while using a locale which is right-to-left, or vice versa.
Regards,
Haggai Eran
** Affects: adium-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Support bidi conversations in the ubuntu theme
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