611518 - [RTL] left and right swipe should be switched for RTL languages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101111 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b3pre

1. go to http://people.mozilla.com/~nhirata/
2. go inside the html_tp folder
3. select any of the web pages
4. hit the back button
5. two finger swipe right

Expected: Forward (one step in the tab specific browsing history) 
Actual: Back (one step in the tab specific browsing history)

Same for two finger swipe left 
Expected: Back (one step in the tab specific browsing history) 
Actual: Forward (one step in the tab specific browsing history)

Note:
Based on bug 610992 and
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec_1.1%2B#Two_Fingers

Comment 1

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

I am not sure about the multitouch gesture specification. Should it match the directions of back/forward arrows in the controls sidebar (reversed in case of RTL), in which case the current multitouch behavior is normal; or should it literally follow what is mentioned in the wiki independently of the browser dir?

Comment 2

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

CC'ing the rtl community to collect more points of view.

Comment 3

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

According to ianbarlow (irc discussion), the horizontal swipe effects should match those of the arrow navigation buttons. For RTL locales, back button is represented by an arrow pointing to the right, and forward button is an arrow to the left. That said, the current behavior of left/right swipes in RTL Fennec is correct.

Marking as invalid.