Public bug reported: Users of Right-To-Left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi often need to either right- or left- align the text in text fields. However, KDE4 applications do not support the ability to switch the text direction. Most KDE applications simply left align everything (kate, for instance). Others (such as Basket) right- or left- align based on the first letter of text fields. Still other apps (Kaddressbook, for instance) right- or left- align each line of text separately based upon the first letter of that line.
Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) allow the user to select RTL or LTR with a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-X). KDE needs a similar facility for for switching text alignment and directionality, which would be consistent across KDE apps. Implementing Ctrl-Alt-X or another shortcut (preferably configurable) is necessary. Note that in Mozilla apps text directionality is switched together, and correctly so, with text alignment when using this shortcut. This bug probably depends on an upstream Qt bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163459 However, from what I gather from other BiDi users, neither KDE nor Trolltech are working on this. So I hope that Ubuntu can pressure Trolltech to fix this, otherwise all Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi users will not be able to move to KDE4 comfortably. Thanks. ** Affects: meta-kde4 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Bidi text: no method for right- and left- aligning text in KDE text boxes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244228 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
