Re: Proposed: evolution

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:47 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > 
> > > A long list of special waivers? Thus far it's:
> > 
> > *snip*
> > 
> > I recall having heard several complaints that Evo doesn't handle RTL
> > languages very well. I don't know if this is solved already, but i18n
> > issues like that should be considered as bugs that may require fixing
> > before inclusion in the desktop release.
> 
> RTL support is hard, and I don't think it's fair to expect any
> application to be "bug free" before introducing it into the desktop.
> Otherwise we wouldn't have shipped gnome-utils or gnome-games for 2.0 ;)
> 
> RTL support will be something that will be worked on, I'm pretty sure.

Radek is writing RTL support for composing messages right after 2.2 and
Owen has done a bunch of work for printing using the new pango stuff.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.