[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 100584] If original sheet direction is RTL, keep new added sheets as RTL not LTR

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100584

--- Comment #7 from Hossein <hossein.ir at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Hossein, what do you think? Making the sheet direction depending on first
> sheet sounds weird to me since first (or initial) sheet settings can change
> later. My take is WF and let Tools > Options > Locale Settings control
> LTR/RTL.

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Hossein, what do you think? Making the sheet direction depending on first
> sheet sounds weird to me since first (or initial) sheet settings can change
> later. My take is WF and let Tools > Options > Locale Settings control
> LTR/RTL.

I think it is better to consider instead the UI direction (e.g. using
SAL_RTL_ENABLED=1 or using RTL language for the UI).

This is also the default behavior in MS Excel. For example, if you use Persian
or Arabic for the UI language, the spreadsheet default direction would be RTL
unless you change the default direction in the options.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_win10-mso_o365b/excel-direction-and-language/0b3913a8-872a-44bb-ba81-333fbd3aaabc

This behavior becomes easier for the user, with the help of the visible button
in the toolbar which enables the user to see the sheet direction and change it
easily. I couldn't find a comparable button in LibreOffice.

There are rare situations where a user uses different languages for the
creation of several mixed RTL/LTR sheet spreadsheets, and in fact these use
cases can be handled with the help of a visible toolbar button, as described
before.

And at last, a dedicated option for the sheet direction in the settings can
help users who work with the sheet direction other than the UI language default
direction. This is specially helpful for the languages with incomplete LO UI
translation.

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