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[Shahar Or <mightyiampresence@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a Hebrew user* here's my humble opinion: Qt and GTK have it right.
The whole interface should be mirrored. That is the path that should be
followed in Unity/2D and the greeter.

The fact that there is uncertainty is very bad. It is an indicator of
the passivity of the RTL users - even the ones most involved!

Let me get this clear, please, for everyone who finds himself writing
from the let side of the page to the right: We RTL users must have our
translated interface mirrored. Otherwise it is strange, funny and hard
to get the mind around.

Much work has been put into translating the Linux Desktop into RTL
languages. Hebrew, Arabic and Persian together have one million and
seventy two thousand translated strings according to Rosetta. Much of
that by people subscribed to this bug.

The release of two versions of the most popular distro, with GUI bugs in
RTL has been a huge damage to the image of the Linux Desktop and Free
Software amongst those locales.

Let us not allow this to happen again. Either pull together the
mirroring of the interface in the default shell or drop those locales
back to the known good shells, please. <- (This line has the bottom
line)

Thanks,
Shahar

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871764

Title:
  Ubuntu right-to-left consistency

Status in Ayatana Design:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in Unity:
  Incomplete
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “unity” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Oneiric:
  Invalid
Status in “unity” source package in Precise:
  Incomplete
Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Precise:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Most toolkits properly deal with right-to-left, properly inverting the
  UI.

  When doing ISO testing, I noticed it's not quite the case for unity
  greeter and unity, here are some notes of the inconsistencies I
  noticed:

  = Unity =
  - Launcher is on the left, identical to a left-to-right system
  - Indicators are on the right, identical to a left-to-right system

  I'm not sure what's the best as I'm not a right-to-left user myself,
  but we should either have Unity also invert its UI, making it
  consistent with what's done in the greeter's panel.

  [This report previously also covered RTL in the greeter, which is
  tracked separately in bug 834386.]

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