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[Haggai Eran <871764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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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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