OpenOffice

Interface in right-to-left mode has problems

Bug #44367 reported by Noam Yorav-Raphael on 2006-05-12

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	OpenOffice	New	Unknown	openoffice-bugs #70152
	openoffice.org (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

I'm a Hebrew user. I now upgraded to Dapper from Breezy. In Breezy, the interface of OpenOffice was very nice.

Now I opened OOWriter, and it looked a bit strange. Nothing was written in the font selection text boxes. After you clicked a menu, it didn't disappear.

I think that it's related to the fact that on Breezy, the buttons on top were ordered from left to right. Now they are ordered from right to left, and it doesn't work very well.

Working that way will be a pain for right to left users - it should be solved.

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Yaniv Abir (yanivabir) wrote on 2006-10-04:

Screenshot of Writer with Hebrew locale Edit (22.5 KiB, image/png)

Happens in Edgy as well.

towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) on 2006-10-04

Changed in openoffice.org:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Yaniv Abir (yanivabir) wrote on 2006-10-04:

Forwarded from duplicate #51495:

"When using OpenOffice.org with a Hebrew language-pack GNOME (doesn't have to be a Hebrew OO.o, the bug happens even when you leave openoffice on the English language pack, but use the Hebrew one for the rest of Ubuntu) the drop-down menus in the tool bars (e.g. font, font size, styles) are messed up - the arrow button graphic does not match the text box graphics (button's curved side is facing the text box's curved side, instead of straight side facing straight side) and the text in the text box's isn't visible at all.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Hebrew language pack.
2. Open an OpenOffice.org program."

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Yaniv Abir (yanivabir) wrote on 2006-10-06:

OO.o with language-pack-he installed Edit (30.5 KiB, image/png)

I reported this to the OO.o bugzilla (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70152), but I'm not sure the problem is in OO.o - it happens even without openoffice.org-l10n-he installed - a Hebrew GNOME is enough - as shown in attached screenshot.

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Martin Kretzschmar (martink) wrote on 2006-10-06:

Screenshot Edit (38.2 KiB, image/png)

For comparison, GNOME running in C locale, started OOo with

LANG=he_IL.utf8 oowriter

Self-compiled 2.0.4~rc2-1ubuntu6 running on dapper.

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Martin Kretzschmar (martink) wrote on 2006-10-06:

Ignore the garbage below the fontsize combo box. Screenshooter artefact.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-12-17

Changed in openoffice:
status:	Unknown → Unconfirmed

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote on 2007-10-21:

Noam,

If I understand this bug correctly I think it might be solved in Ubuntu 7.10 OpenOffice 2.3.0. Can you please try out the new version and let me know if it solves your problem?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Changed in openoffice.org:
assignee:	nobody → ccheney
importance:	Medium → Undecided
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Noam Yorav-Raphael (noamraph) wrote on 2007-10-21: Re: [Bug 44367] Re: Interface in right-to-left mode has problems

Hello Chris,

I'm currently using Ubuntu 7.04 and OpenOffice 2.2.0, and the
interface is from right to left and works ok. (I hope you forgive me
that I didn't mark the bug as fixed.)

Thanks,
Noam

On 10/21/07, Chris Cheney <email address hidden> wrote:
> Noam,
>
> If I understand this bug correctly I think it might be solved in Ubuntu
> 7.10 OpenOffice 2.3.0. Can you please try out the new version and let me
> know if it solves your problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Cheney
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Medium => Undecided
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Cheney (ccheney)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> Interface in right-to-left mode has problems
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44367
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> of the bug.
>

Chris Cheney (ccheney) on 2007-11-15

Changed in openoffice.org:
assignee:	ccheney → nobody
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released

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smhnaji (smhnaji-gmail) wrote on 2008-06-18:

From the menu select...
Tools --> Options --> (From the left pane select) Language Setting --> Languages --> Check the option (( Enable for complex text layout (CTL) ))

Mohammad Naji <email address hidden>

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Emil Gitman (ediulia) wrote on 2008-10-12:

Hello smhnaji. thank you for help. anow it's work

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Yaron (sh-yaron) wrote on 2009-02-25:

#10

Please close this bug, reported as fixed (probably somewhere else) and very old!