@thufie

(Genuine question)

What about RTL languages makes your brain expect the direction of gestures to swap?

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@mossfet because the same direction swipe will often cause a UI element aligned by the text reading direction to show up on the opposite side of the screen. It is hard to describe without an example so here I will add some screenshots showing what I mean. These are from the Wikipedia app, and both of these table of contents pop-outs appear when I swipe from right to left, which only makes sense for LTR languages like English.

@thufie ooooh i getchu

i did remember on hebrew wikipedia the little quick info box is flipped, but i suppose i was expecting that if the gestures weren't flipped then the UI elements wouldn't be either

that's rlly annoying yeah

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