Forcing the KRunnder combo box to be LTR in RTL desktops

Diego Iastrubni elcuco at kde.org
Sun Jan 4 22:15:08 CET 2009


On Sunday 04 January 2009 02:18:19 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2009, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > I am attaching to this mail a patch which forces the combo box in the
> > krunner window to be LTR even on RTL desktops. The motivation is that
> > this window is mostly used for writing commands (english words).
>
> is it? well, it is if you use it only as one would use minicli from kde3,
> but this is going to rather suck for things like searching for apps by type
> or generic name, contacts by their address, files by their metadata ...
>
> i'm not an RTL'r, so i'll leave it up to you. if you do commit this, please
> replace the TODO with FIXME, since that's really what it is =)

I assume that is a "go ahead and commit" responce... 

I am aware of "how much I am breaking", but at least I am breaking new 
scenarios, not new ones. I hope that by KDE 4.3 I will be able to remove 
this... 


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