Bug 199131

Summary:	Dolphin Icon View backwards in RTL mode
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, ebrahim, elcuco, moceap, zayed.alsaidi
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	rtl
Version:	18.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Dotan Cohen 2009-07-06 11:27:35 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.90)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When in Right to Left mode, Icons should be ordered from right to left as well as the UI. So a file named "aaa" should appear to the right of a file named "bbb". Furthermore, they should start at the right side of the window, not the left side.

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2009-07-06 11:38:03 UTC

Created attachment 35090 [details]
Screenshot illustrating the issue

See that "אאא" is on the left of "בבב", it should be on the right . Furthermore, the icons should be aligned to the right edge, not the left.

Comment 2 Diego Iastrubni 2009-09-05 00:10:45 UTC

I forced the file system display in Dolphin to be always LTR. Dolphin is for managing files, which are usually LTR/English.

Dotan told me that this is not always true, and has a few friends which maintain a large number of Hebrew named directories and files. I think that those people are minority and I see that most people will name files and directories in English.

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2009-09-05 12:49:04 UTC

After discussing this issue with Diego some time ago on the local LUG list, I checked with my neighbours (mostly Windows users) and found that they, too, use mostly Hebrew directory names. The Russian neighbours even have Russian directory names on their Russian install of Windows.

From my limited research, it seems that people use mostly directory names in their native languages. Almost everybody does use English directory names in addition to their native language, but the majority of user-created directory names are in their native language.

Directory listings in Icon View should be in the same directionality as the UI. That means that in Hebrew and Arabic installs, it should be RTL. I have no problem with there being an option for LTR directionality, or even a toolbar icon for it, but it should _not_ be the standard behaviour.

Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2009-09-20 08:06:19 UTC

A solution to this issue might be to separate Hebrew and English icons when Dolphin is configured to sort by name. Have all the Hebrew icons aligned to the right, and the English icons aligned to the left on a new line. Just do not use a separator between them, because that would look bad when "show in groups" is selected.

Thanks.

Comment 5 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:18:29 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2013-12-29 20:43:22 UTC

When I run "dolphin -reverse", then most of the Dolphin UI is not reversed.

Comment 7 Mosaab Alzoubi 2018-12-24 11:34:20 UTC

Created attachment 117088 [details]
Fresh & exact details for the bug

Fresh & exact details for the bug

Comment 8 Zayed Al-Saidi 2022-01-21 12:20:25 UTC

this is fixed by Janet Blackquill. Finally after so many years. 

https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/b81d3fbbbb188805e279791f4e06dec460f83697