Bug 1008397

Summary: RFE: Anaconda should mirror the UI for right-to-left languages like Arabic
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike FABIAN <mfabian>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: dshea, eng-i18n-bugs, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mfabian, mkolman, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vpodzime
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-20.18-1.fc20 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-09-21 20:05:09 UTC Type: Bug
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gedit-comparision-english-arabic.png
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typing-root-password-in-arabic-in-anaconda.png none

Description Mike FABIAN 2013-09-16 10:08:41 UTC
Created attachment 798202 [details]
anaconda-comparing-russian-and-arabic-ui-no-mirroring-is-done-for-arabic.png

GTK applications like gedit, gimp, ... mirror the UI when
running in a locale of a language using a right-to-left script.

Anaconda does not. It should.

(Tested with Fedora-20-Alpha-x86_64-netinst.iso).

Comment 1 Mike FABIAN 2013-09-16 10:14:03 UTC
Created attachment 798203 [details]
gedit-comparision-english-arabic.png

gedit screenshots in English and Arabic.

Shows that gedit mirrors when run in Arabic locale.

LC_ALL=ar_EG.UTF-8 gedit 

mirrors the UI,

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 gedit

show the "normal" UI.

Comment 2 Mike FABIAN 2013-09-16 10:21:17 UTC
Created attachment 798205 [details]
gimp-comparison-english-arabic.png

Screenshot comparing

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gimp

and

LANG=ar_EG.UTF-8 gimp

The UI is mirrored in Arabic.

Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2013-09-16 10:48:13 UTC
Created attachment 798219 [details]
typing-root-password-in-arabic-in-anaconda.png

Another screenshot when typing the root password in
an Arabic installation in anaconda.

One can see the the labels for the password entry fields
have colons (:) on the left side, which looks completely
wrong when the entry fields are to the right of these labels.

This would also be fixed by mirroring the UI, then the entry
fields would be correctly to the left of the labels.

Comment 4 Vratislav Podzimek 2013-09-17 07:50:14 UTC
Patches sent to anaconda-patches.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-09-18 15:46:30 UTC
anaconda-20.18-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-20.18-1.fc20

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-18 17:44:01 UTC
Package anaconda-20.18-1.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing anaconda-20.18-1.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-17065/anaconda-20.18-1.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Mike FABIAN 2013-09-19 06:55:21 UTC
Nice, I see it in Fedora 20 Alpha RC4 already!

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-09-21 20:05:09 UTC
anaconda-20.18-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.