Dock location reversed in RTL

How about translating "Left" to (the equivalent of) "Right" and vice versa? ;)

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+pots/dashtodock/he?search=left

@gunnarhj - I thought about that but we need to add a comment and enforce this decision for all the other RTL languages (I'm guessing Arabic, Persian and Urdu mainly).

It would be better handle at the code level, the dashtodock setting do that

https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/commit/eb2aaf81

Changing the code would indeed be better; my idea was semiserious.

See also bug 1877108

Mmhmh, I think the problem is more in control-center than in the dock, no?

In the sense that the code of the dock just considers a dock set to the "left" in RTL world to be actually to the right. So, while setting may be misleading, I would not invert that but instead I'd change the way it's handled in g-c-c depending on the language.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.36.3-1ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:3.36.3-1ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version rebased on Debian (lp: #1884063)

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * debian/patches/0030-temporarily-revert-alt-char-key.patch:
    - Change po/POTFILES.in too, so dh_translations can create
      gnome-control-center-2.0.pot.
  * d/p/0015-connectivity-add-network-connectivity-checking-toggl.patch:
    - Add "privacy" to Keywords in the .desktop file in line with
      https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/05f3cb67
      (LP: #1869288)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * d/p/0008-Allow-tweaking-some-settings-for-Ubuntu-Dock.patch:
    - Ensure dock position is respected in RTL (LP: #1876937)
    - Add proper matching the dock monitor ID (LP: #1877108)
  * d/p/0024-display-Allow-fractional-scaling-to-be-enabled.patch:
    - Improve fractional scaling toggling (LP: #1876891, #1876894)
    - Look for proper fractional scaling key in Wayland and X11 (LP: #1871864)
  * d/p/0031-fingerprint-dialog-Don-t-limit-the-number-of-maximum.patch:
    - Don't make flowbox children selectable (LP: #1877441)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:44:56 +0200

Thank you Marco!
Your effort is very important to a large community of RTL Ubuntu users.

This is definitely bringing us one step closer to improving the overall usage experience for those crazy languages speakers :)

Hello Yaron, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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@Yaron, any chance you could try how the update works for you?

Yes! This is perfect, thank you!

Thanks, marking the SRU as verified!

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * New stable version (lp: #1884063)

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * debian/patches/0030-temporarily-revert-alt-char-key.patch:
    - Change po/POTFILES.in too, so dh_translations can create
      gnome-control-center-2.0.pot.

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * d/p/0008-Allow-tweaking-some-settings-for-Ubuntu-Dock.patch:
    - Ensure dock position is respected in RTL (LP: #1876937)
    - Add proper matching the dock monitor ID (LP: #1877108)
  * d/p/0024-display-Allow-fractional-scaling-to-be-enabled.patch:
    - Improve fractional scaling toggling (LP: #1876891, #1876894)
    - Look for proper fractional scaling key in Wayland and X11 (LP: #1871864)
  * d/p/0031-fingerprint-dialog-Don-t-limit-the-number-of-maximum.patch:
    - Don't make flowbox children selectable (LP: #1877441)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:50:27 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-control-center has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.