Comment 15 for bug 562130

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Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay) wrote : Re: [Ubuntu-l10n-he] [Bug 562130] Re: Selecting an RTL language should install and RTL capable terminal emulator

IMHO, pushing our request could take quite awhile without the proper help
from big-league contributors.. we should make as much noise as possible,
regardless to the decision -- as long as RTL languages will be fully
supported, whether within the Gnome-Terminal or MLTerm

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Ddorda <email address hidden> wrote:

> I must agree with Shlomil, MLTerm does look worse than Gnome terminal, not
> to talk about how limited it is.
> we should just push to solve the bug in Terminal rather than finding other
> programs. as Shlomil said, I believe that enough pushing the system will
> make Gnome to fix it.
>
> 2010/4/21 Usama Akkad <email address hidden>
>
> > >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 you looked at outdated pictures here are some fresh ones: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.
> >
> > --
> > Selecting an RTL language should install and RTL capable terminal
> emulator
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562130
> > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> > Hebrew Translators, which is a direct subscriber.
> >
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>
> --
> Selecting an RTL language should install and RTL capable terminal emulator
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562130
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Hebrew Translators, which is a direct subscriber.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-he<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-l10n-he>
> Post to : <email address hidden>
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-he<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-l10n-he>
> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>