Open Bug 213742 Opened 21 years ago Updated 14 years ago

newsgroup properties|name should remain LTR even when the UI is right to left

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: tsahi_75, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: rtl) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

when the interface is aligned to the right, e.g. when using a RTL
language (like hebrew or arabic), in the newsgroup properties dialog, the name:
field is also aligned to the right, although the group's name is always in latin
characters. this field should remain LTR even when the UI is RTL

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.aligning the interface to the right: add these lines to the file intl.css, in
the locale\en-US\global, in the en-US.jar file (the language pack file, in the
chrome folder):

/*make UI RTL */

window,dialog,wizard,page { direction: rtl; }

menu { direction: rtl; }

outliner { direction: rtl; }

/*
 * make sure search from address bar remains in RTL
 */

#urlbar .autocomplete-search-engine
{
direction: rtl !important;
}

/*
 * keep Composer <HTML> Source tab LTR
 */

#content-source,
#doctype-text { direction: ltr; }


2.start mozilla.
3. select a newsgroup
4. right-click on the group and select properties, or select newsgroup
properties from the edit menu.
5. see name: field
Actual Results:  
field should be aligned to the left

Expected Results:  
field is aligned to the right

a similar problem with most fields that contain URLs was fixed by smontagu in
bug 157607. i believe what needs to be done is assigning the css class that
solved that bug to this field.
Blocks: 219070
Also, the db for entering the password should stay LTR when the UI is Hebrew
(this is related to bug #222932 )
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
on the other hand, the same dialog box is used for the email folders'
properties, that are localized. the solution here might be complex. maybe detect
wether we are looking on a mail folder or a newsgroup before we set the
directionality for the field, if that's possible.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).
Keywords: rtl
Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: esther → message-display
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