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Title: Scribus Bug Reporting
Date: 2006-02-12 18:00
Author: Femke
Category: Tools
Tags: Scribus
Slug: scribus-bug-reporting
Status: published
New addiction: reading through the thousands of bug-reports on the
rigourously precise Scribus bugtracking system.
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<http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.php>
It is somehow consoling to see those thousands of minor and major
problems scroll by. We will be adding our own reports over the coming
weeks (see below).
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- Looks like change of name in Paragraph style means as much as
deleting that style. Should be prevented or not be the case.
- Hardly any control over selecting blocks of text in preview mode.
Can't figure out why.
- 'Paste' (text within story editor) is extremely slow; screen can
freezes for up to 50 sec. before applying change.
- Paste from other applications (Mozilla Thunderbird, gedit,
Character Map) does not work.
- After 'replace' has been executed, feedback should be 'Replaced x
amount of elements' (not: 'Search Finished')
- Application of changes through Properties is completely irregular.
some changes have effect, some not... some changes trail behind,
others are erased... Sometimes styles are overruled by others,
sometimes not.
- Font size, line height etc. are not forced when applied over
selected text; it seems especially messy when that selection had
different styles/sizes etc. to begin with. When multiple paragraphs
are selected, styles are sometimes applied, sometimes not.
- Feedback in Properties does not reflect the actual formatting of
selected text.
- When a block of text with more than one style applied (or having
different sizes, colors etc.) is selected, the dialogue in
properties would need to grey out/go blank for those specifications
that are mixed. (and not suggest that all selected text has one
particular size, color)
- It is too risky to only be able to check the result on screen (or
scanning the text word by word).
- 'Wordstyles' should be dominant over Paragraph styles and a
paragraph style applied- now if f.e. a line return is removed in a
paragraph on which a paragraph style applies, 'wordstyles'
are removed.
- Changes applied through story editor seem to be more consistently
applied but hard to handle because of visual feedback lacking. Also
it is not possible to change line-height from there.
- When a paragraph style is removed under Menu>Edit>Paragraph
styles, it remains available under Properties>Style (Confusing
because there is no way to check or correct these styles; they do
not exist anymore. Or do they?)
- 'No styles' produces a different effect every time. It should simply
REMOVE ALL STYLES and set text to 'default style'
- Rendering of underlined text is very poor (line is extremely heavy)
- When ALL text is selected in a linked text box, ALL text should
be selected... Now sometimes the whole text is made active (Copy)
and sometimes not; there is no feedback available to find this out.
- 'UNDO' does often not work; never for text corrections/changes (in
Preview nor Story Editor); also not after Select all>Delete; also
not after changing specifications in Properties.
- Line spacing can not be changed per paragraph from
Properties>Line Spacing (it changes line spacing in other
paragraphs around it too)
- Outlined texts: not possible to select outline color?