[haiku] Re: Proposals for the LocaleKit

  • From: "Travis D. Reed" <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:10:22 -0600

Koki, how could we incorporate voting on approval into the system? What
would it look like exactly? I love the idea, but how it would work exactly
is still not geled in my head.
--
Travis D. Reed


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Travis D. Reed <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do we have any Hebrew, Arabic or Persian speakers around who could provide
> a translation for testing????
>
> Also, I want feeback from developers who would be localizing applications
> on this (currently non-functioning) 
> layout<http://hta.haikuzone.net/eo/node/15331?svn=on>.
> Does it make sense? Are there features I should add? Things I should move
> around?
> --
> Travis D. Reed
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:42 AM, PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Le Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:39:42 +0100, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
>> a écrit:
>>
>>
>>  What if translation requires right to left text flow?  Can the window and
>>>> all it's contents (buttons) change its layout to be right to left
>>>> instead of
>>>> left to right?  (I'm referring to changing the justification to the
>>>> right
>>>> side for both text, buttons, layout containers, menus, and whatever else
>>>> is
>>>> part of the UI).
>>>>
>>> Right to left text flow and laying out based on that is still an area
>>> that needs work, or that is mostly unimplemented.
>>>
>>
>> ICU has a backend support for that, but it will need a lot of work on the
>> inner workings of most classes in the interface kit. I think I'm not the
>> best candidate for doing it, I do know ICU, but I don't know much about
>> right-to-left languages...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
>> http://pulkomandy.ath.cx
>>
>>
>

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