As a follow up on my report from last month about bidi status in openoffice.org 3.3, today was a very good day for bidi in openoffice.org. The short story: two important bugs were fixed for 3.3, and we now have the bidi keyword for IssueZilla system.
It began with the fix to a cosmetic bug in the openoffice.org main screen which caused the icons to repaint improperly. While this isn’t critical at all, it just looks really bad to have it on the main screen. And I don’t want people to get the wrong impression. Thanks you Philipp Lohmann for fixing #97556.
Costmetic bug in oo.org RTL UI
The second bug was that AutoFilter isn’t working for RTL sheets (regards whether the UI is LTR or RTL). This issue was reported yesterday and got fixed in 24 hours. Thank you Niklas Nebel for fixing #114944. It took us longer to isolate the bug than to get a patch for it. I wish this will happen more (:
For closing, and in response to the bidi meta issue, a new keyword was created in the issuezilla: bidi. Till now, there was a bidi sub component in the UI, but this isn’t always helpful as sometimes it’s better to report against the actual component. The keyword will help us to better tag the issues for easy listing.
The thank you list is long, as there were more than a few people behind the scenes today. I’ll only mention Netanel, my partner to the Hebrew l10n team.
Free Software Universe 
Are you referring to the Oracle OO?
If so, how these blessed changes will find their way into LibreOffice?
With Oracle latest announcement that it will not join LO, I believe we should put LO before OO.
Thanks for the question.
Code from oo.org is still being merged into LO, these changes will also be in LO. If something will prevent that from happen automatically, I’ll submit the patches myself.
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/ooo33gsl10/rev/c1544ea1f102
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/cws/ooo33gsl10/rev/19803f253537
I didn’t like Oracle’s response, but it also didn’t surprise mu much. This still doesn’t makes people contributing (hired or volunteer) to bad people.
As both patches were done by Sun/Oracle’s people I surely can’t complain. I’m quite thankful for their help.
First time that i found a bug that was actually a bug, and was fix! yea!
is the patches apply allready to the OO.O-beta-bin?
Assaf
The last build was done with OOO330m9. I hope these patches will find their way into m10 which will be used for the RC build.