Ubuntu
language-selector package

  1. Bug #562130
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 562130

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote : Re: Selecting an RTL language should install and RTL capable terminal emulator

>MLTerm is not a Gnome app, it looks ugly and doesn't fit well with the Gnome desktop.

ugly? no. you looked at outdated pictures here are some fresh ones:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5046/mlterm.png
http://uppix.net/6/2/6/ad60d642745d645d0390d78d41d95.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2027572/linuxac/various/Screenshot-Untitled%20Window-1.png
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/910/mltermkarmic.png

and there is even a youtube comparison shows that the gnome terminal is the one ugly for right to left

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H_HYkyD7wc

Konsole is using a workaround similar to bicon which could be used for vte but it has many bugs and not maintained any more and his maintainer is the same vte maintainer so he could have used it him self. and Konsole has its owen issues with rtl. mlterm is simply the best for rtl users.