[Adium-devl] Localizations for RTL languages

[Ofri Wolfus]

Hi all,

I was emailed by Oded Shopen, asking me about Hebrew localization and  
so I came up with a little class that'll make this possible.
Basically, GUI in any RTL language needs to be an exact mirror of LTR  
GUI, so my class checks for the active localization of the app and if  
needed, mirrors all views in any window that is drawn to screen. It  
has some small bugs with views that are moved manually and assume to  
be in a specific location, but these are not so common and may be  
easily fixed. (See http://www.dpompa.com/adium-rtl.jpg).

So my question is if we want this going into 1.0. The class is fully  
self contained, and works as follows.
First, it checks for the value of the "DPDefaultDisplayDirection" key  
in the Info.plist, which may be either "LTR" or "RTL". This value (if  
found) represents the direction of the nibs set.
After that, the class checks the active localization of the app, and  
its writing direction. If the writing direction differs from the  
value defined for the default display direction, it'll automatically  
mirror every view that's drawn in a window. Moving views inside a  
window will act the same, but changing the superview of a view will  
cause it to be mirrored again based on its new location in its new  
superview.

Attached is an experimental diff from rev 17251 that uses my class.  
In order to test it, make a copy of some .lproj directory and rename  
it to an RTL language. Then set your main language in the  
International panel to that language, and restart Adium.

Known bugs: 1. The To and From popups in the message window are drawn  
in the wrong direction, and updates only when you move the mouse.
2. Only some of the tooltips get mirrored
3. That dialog for enabling/disabling plugins at startup gets messy

ToDo: Auto reordering of table columns?


- Ofri

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