Re: Translating pictures
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh sharif edu>
- Cc: GTK i18n <gtk-i18n-list gnome org>,GNOME i18n list <gnome-i18n gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Translating pictures
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:
> Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu> writes:
>
> > Well, after a lot of chatting with friends here, it seems that just
> > mirroring an image, or replacing it with a mirrored image in case of
> > Right-to-Left languages is not enough! We really need to *localize* the
> > images based on the language or the locale.
> >
> > A very good example is the GTK_STOCK_SORT_ASCENDING icon, where the Latin
> > letters "A" and "Z" are used as indications of the first and last letters
> > of the alphabet, or the icon for GTK_STOCK_SPELL_CHECK which may confuse
> > the user fooling her that it's a key for, say, switching to a Latin
> > font/keyboard/... This is the same with every language that doesn't use
> > Latin.
> >
> > So I need even more thoughts and suggestions...
>
> Well, RTL variants and localization are basically separate issues.
> (Though you can have localized RTL variants, of course....)
>
> You should be able to create a /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkrc.fa and override
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I mean /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.fa
Regards,
Owen
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