373479 - on a RTL UI, reply, reply all, forward buttons should be flipped

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Tsahi Asher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1
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the reply and reply all buttons have arrows on them pointing left, and the forward button points right. in RTL locales, that have the UI flipped, the graphics on these buttons should be flipped right-to-left, to reflect the different flow of the text and the UI.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Thunderbird 2.0b with an RTL (e.g. Hebrew) locale
2.observe the mentioned buttons
3.


Expected Results:  
as with some of the other graphics, when using a RTL locale, different, revesed, versions of the graphics on these buttons should be used.

Comment 1

[Tsahi Asher]

Attachment: toolbar image with RTL locale

forgot to add: in addition, the arrows in the message list that indicate replied to and forwarded messages should also be reversed.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->NEW

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Other candidates for reversal in the icon set: "Get Mail" (arrow), "Address Book" (book), "Next", "Previous" and "File" (arrows). The last 3 are not in the default set, but can be added when customizing toolbars. Maybe also "Composition" in the preferences dialog.

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Guys, is this still an issue with the new integrated reply, reply all and forward buttons directly in the message pane?

Comment 6

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

As far as I can tell, it is still an issue, both with the message pane buttons, and the toolbar buttons.

Comment 7

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Seems like we'd need a new icon for each unless we wanted to try a css transform and see how that works.