Bug 164342 - Elements pane should not show Arabic items for pure Latin configurations
Summary: Elements pane should not show Arabic items for pure Latin configurations
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 163503
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formula Editor (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Elements-Pane
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Reported: 2024-12-16 08:38 UTC by Roman Kuznetsov
Modified: 2025-04-10 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Element Pane with Arabic items (30.39 KB, image/jpeg)
2024-12-16 08:40 UTC, Roman Kuznetsov 		Details
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Description Roman Kuznetsov 2024-12-16 08:38:38 UTC 
Description:
Element pane in Math should show Arabic items only if there is enabled RTL language support in options

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Make sure you are disabled RTL support in language options (Tools->Options->Language)
1. Open Math
2. Open Element Pane on Sidebar
3. Select Operators
4. Look at item list => there are many Arabic items there

Actual Results:
there are many Arabic items in Math's Element Pane with disabled RTL language support

Expected Results:
there are no any Arabic items in Math's Element Pane with disabled RTL language support


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: f232952e727c50cc3a5927ff3b082f88e36c9bed
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU); UI: ru-RU
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Roman Kuznetsov 2024-12-16 08:40:00 UTC 
Created attachment 198131 [details]
Element Pane with Arabic items
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2024-12-16 10:22:14 UTC 
Sounds reasonable to me.
Comment 3 Roman Kuznetsov 2024-12-17 07:05:29 UTC 
Mike K. suggested another solution like to add a different Arabic Element pane, but of course we need some expert here like Khaled
Comment 4 Mike Kaganski 2024-12-17 07:11:17 UTC 
I would suggest instead to split the mixed panels into separate "Western elements", "Arabic/Persian elements", ... (maybe in the future, there could appear more variants - I don't know which cultures use other notation). As a proponent of *removal* of the option that disables RTL (and Asian) support, I would suggest to not make these elements / panels depend on that option.
Comment 5 Khaled Hosny 2025-04-10 22:09:36 UTC 
To be honest, I don’t understand what is the problem here. Do math users use every symbol shown in the elements panes? If not, why are the new symbols are seen as a problem?

The reason why I didn’t split the new symbols into there own pane is that Arabic math uses other operators like summation and integral, so an Arabic math user would need to be jumping between panes needlessly.

The reason these symbols depend on CTL option is obvious, hiding UI elements based on CTL option is bad UX and we need to do less of it not more, and support for RTL math does not depend on that option either.
Comment 6 Khaled Hosny 2025-04-10 22:11:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163503 ***