Re: Directional Images
- From: Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>
- To: fr33domlover <fr33domlover mailoo org>
- Cc: gtk-list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Directional Images
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:25:20 +0200
No, I don't think it is universally reasonable. Because in general an icon may have a style that is broken when the image is flipped. Imagine e.g. if the buttons in some style contains arrows that were drawn with an elliptical pen slanted at 45 degrees to the right. In such a case the left and the right arrow are not a mirror image of one another. Another example is if the style contains a drawing with dropshadow to the right. Horizontally flipping the image would put the drop shadow to the left, which would be inconsistent with the rest of the theme. You may claim that if this was done throughout the application then it wouldn't make any difference, but if e.g. have an embedded label with "Latin name: " and an LTR widget then it would be inconsistant within the application. Even between applications that have either LTR or RTL directionality on the desktop would look inconsistent.
Thus, imo there is no automatic solution, but you need to create dedicated RTL images to make things look good in a RTL environment.
Regards,
Dov
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