Discussion on Gmail - add RTL buttons | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Shlomi Fish

Shlomi Fish — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:03:57 +0000

Hi all!

How do I enable RTL editing to the GMail *plaintext* mode? I can see them in the HTML mode, but I like to write plaintext messages. Meanwhile in Firefox 3.0.x all the Hebrew text is aligned to the left, which is annoying.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

Archived Comments, replied by splintor

splintor — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:27:45 +0000

Thanks Tomer for letting me know. Following this gmail update, this script will no longer be updated.

Archived Comments, replied by Tomer Cohen

Tomer Cohen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:23:05 +0000

Google recently added RTL controls for all the languages. You can enable that buttons from the Settings screen. Therefore, this script is no longer necessary.

Archived Comments, replied by itairaz

itairaz — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:52:20 +0000

I've posted a new simple script that works on Gmail's new UI here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25811
You'll be able to insert RTL sections inline. It actually works better than Gmail's own RTL buttons, because it doesn't confuse Hebrew and English together.

Archived Comments, replied by robert_it

robert_it — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:45:50 +0000

You can also use this website to write your message and then copy it to Gmail editor and it will be RTL:
http://www.interactivethoughts.com/gmail/

Archived Comments, replied by doron

doron — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:23:57 +0000

thank you so much but
have you noticed that this script doesn't work
any more since google updated the gmail interface?
is there a chance you can update the script?

Archived Comments, replied by splintor

splintor — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:13:46 +0000

@Hetz: Yes, this is related to the new gmail layout. Since the layout is not yet supported in Hebrew, it is hard to add these buttons. Once Hebrew gmail uses this new layout, I'll look into porting this script to support the new layout.

Meanwhile, you can sign privman's petition

Archived Comments, replied by Hetz

Hetz — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:51:26 +0000

I have problems with the buttons. It simply doesn't work. I don't see any new RTL buttons, no matter if I go to gmail by HTTP or HTTPS, whether I go to gmail.com manually or by using the gmail manager extension, it's simply not showing in rich text edit mode.

Are these problem related to the new gmail infrastructure that they have done lately?

Which parameters do I need to give in order to debug this issue?

Thanks,
Hetz Ben-Hamo

Archived Comments, replied by splintor

splintor — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:52:12 +0000

OK, I got the new UI, but it is not trivial to add support for it, as it is quite a change. In fact, when I switch to Hebrew, I don't get the new UI, so maybe Hebrew is not yet supported in the new UI. Since I don't have too much time for it right now, I'll give it a few days. Also, since I copied my code from Geva's extension, I might also wait and see if he responds to Noam's request to support the new UI.

Archived Comments, replied by splintor

splintor — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:47:11 +0000

@taleinat: I will look into it as soon as I get the new UI in my Gmail account.

Archived Comments, replied by taleinat

taleinat — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:50:16 +0000

Very nice, I've been a happy user for several months now.

FYI, Gmail are now rolling out a new version of their web UI, and this doesn't work with the newer version.

I'd love to see this script working with the new UI.

Archived Comments, replied by splintor

splintor — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:18:54 +0000

You're welcome. It was my intention that it will work under IE as well, as my wife still work with IE, and the main idea of the script was to help her, as I rarely use Gmail directly (I use it with POP3 through Outlook)...

Archived Comments, replied by alexagr

alexagr — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:03:44 +0000

Great script! Works both in Firefox and in IE7. Thank you very much!

Archived Comments, replied by splintor

splintor — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:46:04 +0000

Thanks Itai and Noam for your comments. I updated the script to include http://mail.google.com/* and https://mail.google.com/*. I hope this covers all options and don't introduce any other problems.

Archived Comments, replied by Itai345

Itai345 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:58:36 +0000

This is really useful for me! Thanks for an excellent piece of work!

I addition to the previous commenter, I would also add the following to the list of sites:

https://mail.google.com/a/*
http://mail.google.com/a/*

Thins would make it work for the "Google Apps" version of Gmail.

Thanks again!

Archived Comments, replied by Noam Yorav-Raphael

Noam Yorav-Raphael — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:45:02 +0000

It's great, thanks!

A suggestion: Add also https://mail.google.com/* to the list of sites.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:06:11 +0000

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