[Kde-pim] Composer in trunk does not do BiDi

[Diego Iastrubni]

Hi Shai,

The KMail composer is built on top of QTextEdit, which in Qt4 does not 
detect the paragraph direction autimagically. I once opened an issue in 
TT for this problem, here it is:
http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=181177

If it's possible I will try and work on this issue for KDE4.1. I have 
some ideas on the implementation, but it's not something to discuss in 
kde-pim, but in kde-core-devel.

Shai Berger wrote:
> Hi kde-pim developers,
>
> This is my first post to this list. I am a software developer living in 
> Israel, and lately I have found some time to meddle in KDE development, 
> something which I've long wanted to do. I have been a KDE user for more than 
> seven years, and kde-pim applications -- in particular kmail -- have been a 
> large part of the reason for this.
>
> I write to the list because I found what seems to be a regression in KMail's 
> composer in trunk, with respect to bidirectional writing. in KMail 1.9.6, if 
> I start a paragraph in Hebrew (which is written right-to-left), composer 
> immediately does the right thing (aligns it right, and displays it as a RTL 
> paragraph). In the trunk version, this does not happen, and I could not even 
> find a way to tell the composer that a paragraph is RTL.
>
> To make this clear, I uploaded images:
>
> http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7015/kmailcurrentam9.png is what the 
> composer looks like today, when writing a message containing a paragraph in 
> English (LTR) and one in Hebrew (RTL). This is good.
>
> http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4283/kmailbadup4.png is what the composer 
> in trunk looks like, with the same message. This is bad. Actually, it is 
> beyond bad: For Hebrew users, this is a showstopper. 
>
> As those of you who touched bidi issues are probably aware, it is not just 
> alignment: if you look closely, you'll see that the punctuation (ellipsis) 
> appears to the right of the text in the new version. In the old one, it is to 
> the text's left, where it should be.
>
> I found this while trying to fix https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134036 . 
> I've uploaded a patch there, and I would appreciate your feedback and/or 
> attention to that also, but the problem I'm reporting in this mail seems to 
> me much more important.
>
>   

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