Rong direction using a RTL language pack

[Yaniv Abir]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When using a language pack of a language that is written from right to left, the order of the menu in the panel changes appropriately, but the position of the menus on the top panel does not. So, when you open one of the menus, the arrows on the sub-menus point to the left (as they should) but as there is no room to open a sub-menu to the left, they open to the right, as they should not.

The panel should be horizontally flipped for languages written from right to left, so the menus would be on the right of the panel, and the tray on the left.

Steps to reproduce:
Install a language pack of a language written from the right to the lef (e.g. Hebrew)
Click on the System menu

[Yaniv Abir (yanivabir)]

The bottom panel should be horizontally flipped too - for consistency's sake and as it is more logical for the open applications to align to the right.

I must stress that this is indeed a severe problem when it comes to usability in RTL languages - users see the panel before anything else and such a problem would, in there eyes, reflect the rest of the system.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug and pointing to the upstream one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's fixed with that upload:

 gnome-panel (2.17.91-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     Panel:
     - Make the main menu usable with a11y tools
     - Revert changes related to settings menu
     - Fix crash when saving a new Link launcher (Ubuntu: #81726)
     - Improve a lot the panel in RTL environments
     Misc:
     - Optional check for libedataserver for the clock
   * debian/control.in:
     - Build-Depends on libedataserver1.2-dev
   * debian/patches/01_layout.patch:
     - updated and add menu separator after the apport item
   * debian/patches/12_autoconf.patch:
     - updated