[Bug 244228] [NEW] Bidi text: no method for right- and left- aligning text in KDE text boxes

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Users of Right-To-Left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi often
need to either right- or left- align the text in text fields. However,
KDE4 applications do not support the ability to switch the text
direction. Most KDE applications simply left align everything (kate, for
instance). Others (such as Basket) right- or left- align based on the
first letter of text fields. Still other apps (Kaddressbook, for
instance) right- or left- align each line of text separately  based upon
the first letter of that line.

Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) allow the user to select RTL
or LTR with a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-X). KDE needs a similar
facility for for switching text alignment and directionality, which
would be consistent across KDE apps. Implementing Ctrl-Alt-X or another
shortcut (preferably configurable) is necessary. Note that in Mozilla
apps text directionality is switched together, and correctly so, with
text alignment when using this shortcut.

This bug probably depends on an upstream Qt bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163459
However, from what I gather from other BiDi users, neither KDE nor Trolltech are working on this. So I hope that Ubuntu can pressure Trolltech to fix this, otherwise all Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi users will not be able to move to KDE4 comfortably.

Thanks.

** Affects: qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Bidi text: no method for right- and left- aligning text in KDE text boxes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244228
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