Sorry for not being clear. I actually meant that it should be controllable by the programmer.
Looking at the documentation for GtkTextTag I realized that there is a property "direction", that by default has the value GTK_TEXT_DIR_NONE . What happens if you change it to GTK_TEXT_DIR_LTR? Will it not override the automatic calculation of the base direction? If not, it is a bug that can easily be fixed. I can think of no other use for this property that makes sense. And you are never helpless as long as you have the source. Of course you have a complexity barrier and learning curve. But it is much better than the being blindfolded. ;-) Regards, Dov On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 23:36, Ferdinand Ramirez < ramirez.ferdin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Mon, 4/23/12, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Lots of years ago we spoke about having a direction override as a > paragraph > > attribute, but we never got around to implementing it. > > I think it is a good idea to give control to the programmer rather than > make it automatic. > > Making everything automatic and making the programmer feel helpless is the > Microsoft way. There, now that I've insulted you, I am sure you will > consider adding this feature. :-) > > Seriously, this should not even be at the paragraph level, but in the > complete control of the programmer. The programmer should be able to set > the direction and this should hold until it is set again. Even if the > automatic direction detection exists, there should be the ability to > override it. > > -Ferdinand > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
