Mirroring gtk buttons

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:05:23PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 11:38 +0000, Issa Alkurtass wrote:
> > Something like that yes, but this function is only concerned with text
> > direction and ordering of items, not "graphical orientation." We need
> > something that flips or mirrors the widgets.
> 
> 	Well - I'd have a read around inside the gtk+ widget implementations
> themselves to see what they are using themselves to orient
> themselves :-) then we'll need to clobber that. widget_direction as you
> point out only sounds plausible ;-)

The default direction of GTK widgets is locale dependant; it is set by a
string in GTK's gettext catalogue, so if we can somehow trick GTK to use
the same locale as LibreOffice UI, that would be a solution.

Regards,
Khaled