[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 70102] Flipped icons in RTL look out of place

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70102

--- Comment #8 from Mirek2 <mazelm at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> Is there really need to have two versions of icons, LTR and RTL? I have
> never seen such an overkill, IMHO, and would rather attribute it to badly
> designed icons if they don't fit in RTL - not mirrored.

No, separate LTR and RTL versions are needed only for a few select icons --
those dependent on text direction. For example: undo, redo, (the new Tango
icons use color to distinguish the two), superscript, subscript, bullets,
numbering, and I'm sure there are some more, but it's not very many.

> On the other hand it makes sense for the bullets. So why don't we prepare a
> special icon set for RTL, i.e. put designers in charge and not the devs.

It'd be very easy to do -- we just need devs to make it so that an RTL setting
prefers icons suffixed with "_rtl" and doesn't flip any icons. It'd be good to
get a list of the icons that LibreOffice currently flips, so that we have a
list of RTL icons to make.

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