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24.0.94; Right-to-left GUI

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 11016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, starback <at> stp.lingfil.uu.se
Subject: bug#11016: 24.0.94; Right-to-left GUI
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:10:20 +0200

> Some prefer one, others prefer the other.  It should be a separate
> user option, because there's no one-fits-all solution, and basing the
> solution on the locale is definitely wrong (one can work in a R2L
> locale without speaking any R2L language).

We probably should use gtk_menu_bar_set_child_pack_direction right
after the gtk_menu_bar_new call in create_menus according to that user
option.  Its values would probably be 'left-to-right', 'right-to-left'
and nil - to leave the decision to the locale.

martin

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