[Konsole-devel] Disable BiDi rendering in konsole4

[Diego Iastrubni]

Is it ok to commit? 

On Saturday 15 March 2008 23:20:18 Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> (I see your response on the archives, but it did not arrive here).
>
> I saw the patch you made a few weeks ago. It's not enough. Also, setting
> the "layout direction" on the painter is not what I need. I don't want to
> change the paragraph direction on the drawed text, but disable the BiDi
> rendering on the display, since console applications already take care of
> it. (vim and emacs have a bidi build, and there are other hacks as fribidi
> and akka). Changing the location of the chars will confuse a lot of
> applications, and must be avoided.
>
> For example, "cat mazal-tov.txt" on your konsole with the patch attached
> previously and then enable/disable the BiDi rendering.
>
> On Friday 14 March 2008 21:14:45 Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > One feature which is missing from konsole4 (comparing to konsole3) is the
> > rendering of BiDi. In konsole3 BiDi was disabled by default and it can be
> > enabled from the options dialog, or pressing alt+control+b.
> >
> > In QPainter4, there is no option for this, but it may be hacked using
> > &LRO; +text (I will open a task in Trolltech and ask for such method in
> > Qt4.5). Meanwhile, I have a patch here which enables/disables this
> > feature (note that there was some code left in konsole, some variables
> > already defined which deal with BiDi).
> >
> > I still am missing the keyboard shortcut to enable/disable this on the
> > current view/profile, and I was hopping someone would give me a hint
> > about this.
> >
> > The patch is attached, and I can commit if no one objects.
> >
> > - diego