[PATCH] Add a sidebar to the standalone windows (#1045250)

David Shea dshea at redhat.com
Mon Jan 6 20:14:07 UTC 2014


On 01/06/2014 03:09 PM, David Shea wrote:
> On 01/06/2014 02:59 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, David Shea <dshea at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> What about right-to-left languages? Should the sidebar be on the 
>>> other side?
>>>
>> Gosh, that's a good question. I don't know how we handled this in old 
>> school firstboot (where we also had a sidebar like this.)
>>
>> I think that, if the button order changes for R-to-L (which I'm 
>> pretty sure it does) then the sidebar should move to the other side 
>> too. I can easily modify this so it can do either placement, but I'm 
>> not sure where to grab, logically, whether or not to draw it left or 
>> right from. :-/ Do you have any ideas?
>
> There's a function in MountpointSelector.c, 
> get_default_widget_direction that copies the Gtk logic but allows it 
> to be run after program startup. We can move that to widgets-common.c 
> and use it in the spokes and hubs.

Actually, that's been added in gtk 3.11 as gtk_get_locale_direction, so 
you can use that on master.


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