[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #20: A request for an API solution of reversing the arrows.

[Lars Knoll]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:13, Munzir Taha wrote:
> The image of the pointing arrow needs to always be reversed in
> QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory(), ::getOpenFileName(s)()
> and ::getSaveFileName() when the layout direction is reversed. I believe Qt
> should implement this on the API and attach it to the reverse situation.
>
> Now the left and right arrows on applications/dialogs/widgets should be
> swapped when dealing with a right-to-left language. We need to always do it
> as follows as mentioned by blanchette's book:
>
>     if (QApplication::reverseLayout()) {
>          backAct->setIconSet(forwardIcon);
>          forwardAct->setIconSet(backIcon);
>     } else {
>          backAct->setIconSet(backIcon);
>          forwardAct->setIconSet(forwardIcon);
>     }
>
> Is it too expensive if I ask for this to be somehow on the API?

It's nothing we will do for 4.0. I'll set it on the list of feature requests 
for 4.1 though.

Lars