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As a Hebrew user* here's my humble opinion: Qt and GTK have it right. The whole interface should be mirrored. That is the path that should be followed in Unity/2D and the greeter.
The fact that there is uncertainty is very bad. It is an indicator of the passivity of the RTL users - even the ones most involved!
Let me get this clear, please, for everyone who finds himself writing from the let side of the page to the right: We RTL users must have our translated interface mirrored. Otherwise it is strange, funny and hard to get the mind around.
Much work has been put into translating the Linux Desktop into RTL languages. Hebrew, Arabic and Persian together have one million and seventy two thousand translated strings according to Rosetta. Much of that by people subscribed to this bug.
The release of two versions of the most popular distro, with GUI bugs in RTL has been a huge damage to the image of the Linux Desktop and Free Software amongst those locales.
Let us not allow this to happen again. Either pull together the mirroring of the interface in the default shell or drop those locales back to the known good shells, please. <- (This line has the bottom line)
Thanks,
Shahar