Bug 62932 - EDITING: No option to change LTR writing direction to RTL for comment edit box in Impress
Summary: EDITING: No option to change LTR writing direction to RTL for comment edit bo...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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: 86830 142519 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: RTL-UI
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Reported: 2013-03-30 08:45 UTC by navin patidar
Modified: 2023-12-08 20:51 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Demonstration of different font sizes (9.27 KB, image/png)
2017-11-03 11:02 UTC, Omer Zak 		Details
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Description navin patidar 2013-03-30 08:45:02 UTC 
Steps to reproduce.
1. Create a slide in impress.
2. Press "ctrl+alt+c" keys.

Comment box appears and default writing direction for that is LTR.
No option to change default LTR writing direction to RTL.
Comment 1 Lior Kaplan 2013-03-30 11:45:02 UTC 
Bug confirmed with 4.0.1.2, changing status to new.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2014-12-16 14:43:49 UTC 
*** Bug 86830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Omer Zak 2017-11-03 11:01:10 UTC 
Still happens in:

Version: 5.4.2.2.0+
Build ID: 1:5.4.2-3~bpo9+1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.9; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); Calc: group

OS: Debian 64bit Stretch (Debian 9.2, with some backported packages)

By the way, the character size in the Hebrew font being used in comments is very different from that used in the English font. I think that font selection and size for comments logically belongs to the View submenu, but I do not see how can it be easily discoverable by users.
Comment 4 Omer Zak 2017-11-03 11:02:00 UTC 
Created attachment 137500 [details]
Demonstration of different font sizes
Comment 5 Omer Zak 2018-09-17 17:08:33 UTC 
Still no option to change writing direction from LTR to RTL.
Font sizes in English and Hebrew are still very different.

גרסה: 6.1.1.1
מזהה הבנייה: 1:6.1.1~rc1-2~bpo9+1
תהליכי משנה במעבד: 8; מערכת הפעלה: Linux 4.16; עיבוד מנשק: בררת מחדל; VCL: gtk2; 
מיקום: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded

running under Debian Stretch:
$ uname -a
Linux c5 4.16.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.16.16-2~bpo9+1 (2018-06-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2019-01-23 18:08:08 UTC 
Not limited to Impress. Reproduced with 3.3.0 on Win 10.
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2019-01-23 18:10:15 UTC 
Argh, apologies: this *is* limited to Impress as Writer has the toolbar buttons enabled.
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2021-11-29 11:55:37 UTC 
*** Bug 142519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Eyal Rozenberg 2021-11-29 12:11:11 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8)
> *** Bug 142519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment directionality and alignment could definitely use some developer attention...
Comment 10 BogdanB 2023-12-08 20:51:06 UTC 
The same in
Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9fb3970a1a599eae2447f6746597843434ee758b
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: he-IL (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded