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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>From purely reading the description (not the code/branch) this seems to
be a good idea indeed. The Unity team will do the actual branch review
and land it (or follow up with suggestions how to improve it).

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963682

Title:
  Fallback to Unity 2D for RTL locales

Status in Ayatana Design:
  New
Status in Nux:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Dear Friends,

  Since Unity and Nux don't yet support RTL (Bug #654988) then until
  that support is released, Unity should fall back to Unity 2D, which
  does support RTL.

  A branch for Nux, was written for this purpose and a merge was
  proposed. Please make freeze exception.

  The rationale is that RTL users will get mighty confused because their
  shell is LTR while the rest of their apps are RTL.

  It would be better to have a "boring", no bling shell than to have an
  LTR shell in a RTL language.

  Test packages are available in the following PPA:
  https://launchpad.net/~haggai-eran/+archive/nux-rtl-fallback-to-unity-2d

  In order to test:

  1. See that when user's language is one of the RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, etc.) that a Unity session is replaced by a Unity 2D session.
  2. See that this can be circumvented by setting the UNITY_ALLOW_RTL variable (I do it in .profile).
  3. See that LTR locales sessions are not affected by this.

  Thanks and Blessings,
  Shahar

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