[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 159121] [GTK] The scrollbar apeears on the left side on RTL (2.13.2)

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159121

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |mcatanzaro at igalia.com,
                   |                            |mmaxfield at apple.com,
                   |                            |simon.fraser at apple.com
            Summary|The scrollbar apeears on    |[GTK] The scrollbar apeears
                   |the left side on RTL        |on the left side on RTL
                   |(2.13.2)                    |(2.13.2)
           See Also|                            |https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
                   |                            |show_bug.cgi?id=768041

--- Comment #1 from Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> ---
I'm confused, because in any other application (tested nautilus and gedit) I can see scrollbars are on the left when running with LANG=he_IL.utf-8... so why shouldn't they be on the left for web sites as well? If it's just "because that's what other browsers do," I guess that expectation will change once this change hits Apple devices, right? Striving for consistency with the rest of the desktop seems more important to me.

I'll note that some of the layout tests are skipped with the comment "RTL scrollbars are only supported on Mac." We certainly do support RTL in GTK and expect our scrollbars to do... something that is familiar to folks who use RTL locales. I see there is a new ScrollableArea::systemLanguageIsRTL function that is only implemented on OS X. Guess: is it possible that the scrollbars are always on the left on OS X, but in GTK the position varies based on the language used on the web page rather than system locale? If this is the problem, I can see why that would be problematic. I guess if we were to implement that function, the scrollbars would then always be on the left (in RTL locales); that's the opposite of what you requested, but would that be desirable for Hebrew, Yosef?

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