Any right-to-left readers out there?

Ian Monroe ian.monroe at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 18:55:43 CET 2010


On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> I just worried about the rtl usability of the new Toolbar, tested "amarok --
> reverse" and the result is (unrelated to the bar) a "disaster" ;-)
>
>
> The progressslider moves left to right, the toolbar icon order is reverted but
> they're not mirrored (so the play button points out of the window in the top
> right corner), the timelabel position is reverted against the slider in the
> slim toolbar (fixable by a mouseclick) and while matching the slider in the
> MainToolbar, the alignment is "wrong" (?)! and the next & prev track labels
> follow the slider but in this break against everything else.
>
> Now, this is easy to fix (esp. the icons in the MainToolbar are under easy
> control), i just wonder what rtl readers would expect (i mean, they buy the
> same Asian HW players like the rest of us ;-)
>
> So readers of the wrong* direction:
> - which direction should the slider move
> - how should the player buttons be ordered
> - do you expect the next track on the left or the right?

Probably amarok@ would be a better place to poise this question.

Ian


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