I think the state of Unity and Unity-2d are quite different. Unity-2d is
based on Qt, so they got very good RTL support from the toolkit. The
Oneiric version already contained patches to mirror the desktop. There
was some bug in Qt that caused it to crash in the RTL version (#836498),
but a workaround was found.

The Unity desktop is based on Nux, which is a less mature toolkit,
without such support. I've been trying to promote patches to Nux for
some RTL support (lp:~haggai-eran/nux/rtl-logical-packing), but it takes
a very long time. I also started working in the past on mirroring the
Unity desktop, but I'd rather not work on it until the Nux patches are
accepted (or until there is some other RTL support in it), since Unity
is a moving target, and I rather not keep merging patches.

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