851165 - Support RTL locales in Metro Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tracking Graveyard :: Metro Operations, defect)

Description

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

We have some work to do to support right-to-left languages in Metro Firefox.  This will mostly involve adding RTL versions of certain image assets and CSS rules, and then auditing our UI for any RTL-specific bugs.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

If we know we're going to support RTL then we can move this to backlog I think.
Otherwise we can move this to v2.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I think it's important that we have basic RTL support for our primary UI (at least the app bars and tab strip.) I'll create a story that covers our MVP for RTL for v1 and attach it here.

Comment 3

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Note: For testing in English builds, create a string preference with name "intl.uidirection.en" and value "rtl".

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck) from comment #3)
> Note: For testing in English builds, create a string preference with name
> "intl.uidirection.en" and value "rtl".

In addition, you can edit this file to change the direction for in-content UI (about: pages).
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/locales/en-US/chrome/global.dtd

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

We never shipped the metro support, closing!