Tooltips do not show RTL strings

Do the menus show properly in Hebrew? The weather or calendar painters?

RTL menu items render fine, but I cannot reproduce a case where all of the strings in a docky right-click menu are RTL strings. I attach a screenshot showing one RTL string in a menu.

I added the clock docklet and there is a problem in its right-click menu: one of the spaces is missing ("Digital watch" is rendered as שעוןדיגיטלי instead of שעון דיגיטלי), and the keyboard underlines are drawn before their letters instead of underneath them. Screenshot is attached. However, this is a minor problem compared to the initial one.

If by "painter" you mean the weather and calendar "modes" of docky, I cannot answer your question. These are not translated into Hebrew, and they are displayed in English even with Hebrew interface.

I'm starting to suspect this is an upstream issue with Pango. Take the keyboard underlines for example, we don't actually handle drawing those - Pango lays out both the text and the underlines and we just draw on the layout it gives.

Thanks for your attention! Can you help me report this issue to Pango then? I do not have the knowledge required for reporting such infrastructural problems, and I will not be able to provide them with a test case.

Their bug tracker is in BugZilla, not on Launchpad. You might want to take a look over there and see if your bug is already reported. For example here are open bugs containing the word 'hebrew':

http://is.gd/dKOAF

I am not 100% certain the problem lies with Pango, but that seems to most logical to me as we just give Pango a string, some font information etc and then it gives us the rectangle and path to draw it.

I reported a bug for pango: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625363
Please feel free to add your own input, as you are the user of the pango library and must understand the way it interfaces with docky better than I do.

Pango developers seem to be certain that this is not a problem in Pango but in docky.

It is sad to think Docky will not be usable on RTL locales (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Malayalam,, Urdu and more) just because the developers of Docky and Pango cannot be bothered to talk to each other...

fixed in bzr1684

Great!