From 9ba5ca019345aa62754a055afcca88a7a46a455f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abderrahim Kitouni <a.kitouni@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:08:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] environment.js: set default direction for St widgets

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584662
---
 js/ui/environment.js | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/js/ui/environment.js b/js/ui/environment.js
index 6d0bb4884..dbf816413 100644
--- a/js/ui/environment.js
+++ b/js/ui/environment.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /* -*- mode: js2; js2-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */
 
 const St = imports.gi.St;
+const Gettext_gtk20 = imports.gettext.domain('gtk20');
 
 const Tweener = imports.ui.tweener;
 
@@ -33,4 +34,9 @@ _patchContainerClass(St.Table);
 function init() {
     Tweener.init();
     String.prototype.format = Format.format;
+
+    // Set the default direction for St widgets (this needs to be done before any use of St)
+    if (Gettext_gtk20.gettext("default:LTR") == "default:RTL") {
+        St.Widget.set_default_direction(St.TextDirection.RTL);
+    }
 }