Bug 187398

Summary:	Allow directionality to be set in any text field
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, kde-2011.08
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Dotan Cohen 2009-03-17 14:13:23 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

There are many text fields that one cannot change the directionality in, such as input fields in Korganizer, the Konqueror address bar, and the Dolphin Rename File dialog. This is very problematic for RTL users. Please add the ability to change directionality in all fields. Thanks.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2013-12-29 20:07:32 UTC

As far as I know, Qt now automatically detects layout direction by the characters you enter. Could you please check, if this works correctly, or if there are remaining places where adding an option to manually change the direction would be needed?

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2013-12-30 12:54:16 UTC

Qt does in fact now autodetect the directionality based on the first character of the string. It is not ideal, but it is good enough that I'll not burden KDE with yet another bug report.

Thanks!