Bug 224488

Summary:	Animate text alignment and directionality changes
Product:	[Plasma] Oxygen	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	style	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ebrahim, hugo.pereira.da.costa, kde-2011.08, sh.yaron
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	rtl
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Dotan Cohen 2010-01-27 17:43:35 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

In KDE 4 almost everything that moves or changes is animated, this makes for a very fluid and enjoyable experience. However, the few remaining non-animated actions are now doubly jarring in contrast!

Please animate text alignment and directionality changes, such as when one presses Ctrl-Shift to change fields from LTR to RTL and vice versa. Thanks!

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-27 17:45:33 UTC

Speakers of Right-to-Left languages deal with this situation often, even in simple fields such as file rename dialogues, addressbars, and search fields.

Comment 2 Hugo Pereira Da Costa 2010-01-29 05:30:06 UTC

mmm. I can give it a shot but would like usecase. 
Where is Ctrl+Shift changing text direction ? Can you point me to an app that does that ? 
And also: since its a new feature, that won't probably go in before kde4.5, sorry. (well unless its very polished and people agree that it gets backported to kde4.4.1).
As far as I'm concerned, the more things are animated the better !

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-31 07:38:29 UTC

Sure, Hugo! The usecase is when speakers of Right To Left languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Parsi) switch between directionality when typing. To try it (Even if you don't speak an RTL language) open qtconfig -> Interface -> Enhanced support for languages written right-to-left. Now restart the machine. In the Kaddressbook Notes field type a line and press RightShift-RightCtrl. You will see that the text is on the right now. It is not simply right-aligned, it has RTL directionality (see that the punctuation is on the left.

This is supposed to work in all KDE fields, but there are lots of bugs. Actually in KDE 4.2 it worked rather well, I will file the regressions now.

Thanks!

Comment 4 Yaron Shahrabani 2020-11-08 06:13:41 UTC

@Dotan, are you satisfied with the current situation? Any further actions needed?

Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2020-11-08 18:04:17 UTC

@Yaron
Nothing has been done since the issue was filed, but I suppose that this bug was a nitpick. Not animating alignment and directionality changes really is not important.

Comment 6 Yaron Shahrabani 2020-11-09 07:57:45 UTC

@Dotan thank you for much for the insights, that's truly important, we'll keep on communicating over other bugs, if there's another bug you find especially annoying feel free to share.