[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 145730] Flip Impress templates when locale setting is set to RTL language

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145730

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
I partially agree with Heiko.

RTL is not just about reading direction, it applies to writing and layout and
possibly other things; and it is not an attribute of paragraphs only, it is
also an attribute of  the page/slide and of the entire document (the latter -
at least in principle).

However, as Heiko points out, we have some UI for changing the page direction
and the paragraph direction. Calc doesn't really have the equivalent of Writer
and Impress' paragraphs-in-pages, so a global "flip direction" command makes
more sense in Calc and less sense in Writer and Impress.

Then again, switching the presentation direction or the page direction, should,
IMHO, switch from an LTR variant of a template to its RTL variant, without the
user having to manually switch templates. And we might even want this to happen
on the page levels.

Thus, either:

1. Templates are made to be direction-sensitive and include contents/settings
for both directions, or
2. Templates should be linked, with a direction change triggering a switch to
the linked template.

> I would prefer to ship RTL variants of the templates.

Does that mean you would support my second alternative?

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