Most Annoying Bugs

Criteria
The most annoying bugs are the top most annoying and disruptive to daily workflow.

As for LibreOffice, "Hard hacks" should meet the below requirements :
 * Be really annoying for a significant amount of people
 * Be relatively difficult to solve and/or track down
 * Crashes/data loss are good candidates but not necessary
 * Backtraces should be done on proposed hard hacks before they become accepted hard hacks
 * Enhancement requests should NOT be on the list

As for Scribus, care has been taken when nominationg these "most annoying bugs" to the following criteria :
 * Bug can be reproduced
 * Bug impacts core of scribus mission
 * Bug impacts basic functionnalities
 * Bug doesnt require a rare combination of circumstances

Here there are.

= The Dirty Ten =

bugid = 12228,12276,11574,11814,11420,11369,1752,6241,11995,11071 comment#12228 = user interface comment#12276 = styles, undo comment#11574 = styles comment#11814 = styles comment#11420 = styles comment#11369 = user interface, search comment#1752 = user interface, search comment#6241 = user interface comment#11995 = layout comment#11071 = layout

3 categories
It appears MABs can be sorted in 3 categories :
 * layout related (right align tab, shrunk text, issue with endofparagraph glyph when right align, etc). See also '#layout' tag on the bug tracker. There are some more very annoying layout issues (some being related to hyphenation)
 * styles related (object copy and paste from other document or from scrapbook, style import, undo messes styles, copy and paste messes styles ...). See also '#styles' tag on the bug tracker
 * User interface related and search related

Brainstorming & Nominations
TODO: CONFIRM or COMMENT and VOTE on candidates

Note: Please label bugs using the bug template: where # siginifies bug number on the Mantis Bugtracker


 * Being able to type accented characters with keyboard → 'FIXED!'
 * ''This bug hinders a very basic feature : ability to type text. Any scribus user that uses a langage with accented glyphs (french, spanish, polish etc) cant type all accented glyphs and has to resort to painfull quirks (like copy and pasting from a word, libreoffice or plain text document) for each accented glyph they meet that cant be typed through keyboard (= those using more than one keystrike).
 * Comment : many have confirmed, including 2 devs.
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1; Ale +1; JLuc +1)


 * When no end of paragraph is part of the selected and copied text, pasting should not paste the paragraph style of the selection (it should only paste the character styles) →  (nominated by JLuc) - 'new' - TO BE CONFIRMED
 * ''First demonstrated in 1968 at the Xerox PARC, Cut (or Copy) and Paste feature is one of the most common operation of computer use. Scribus should manage it perfectly.
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1; pygmee +1; JLuc +1)


 * Impossible selection across multiple linked frames →   (nominated by JLuc) - 'Affected'
 * ''Selection is one of the most basic features of text editing. All commonly used software that manage multiple pages can select text across pages, whether DTP or text editors. Not meeting this user's habit and expectation is a deterrent to the use of scribus.
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1; Ale +1; JLuc +1)


 * Copy'n'Pasting text from another document should not overwrite the current styles definitions without question nor warning → (nominated by Jluc) - 'new' - TO BE CONFIRMED
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1; JLuc +1;)


 * Search only searches current frame →  's ringerc proposition to add options to search selection / frame / linked frames / whole document - 'Accepted'
 * ''Search and replace text is one of the most common operation anybody has to perform when working on documents.
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1; pygmee++1)


 * Importing a page from another document should not overwrite the current styles definitions without question nor warning → ) (nominated by Jluc) - 'new' - TO BE CONFIRMED
 * ''Styles are at the core of layout. Defining and using styles is one of the most important guidelines for users wanting to learn DTP. Managing styles should be done without any flaw. Conflicts should be well managed, with user's guidances when required.
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1)


 * Search doesn't center (= focus viewport) on result → (nominated by JLuc) - 'Confirmed'
 * Votes -> (Kunda +1)


 * All "layout" bugs : see #layout tag on the bug tracker
 * These are layout bugs (not including UI bugs), as "right tab scrambles text" or "text is scrambled when image too close" etc
 * Votes -> (JLuc +1)

Background

 * Thread on the ML started by JLuc on May 2014.
 * Heavily inspired by the LibreOffice model:
 * LibreOffice Most Annoying Bugs
 * LibreOffice Hardhacks
 * LibreOffice Bugtacker labeled Hardhacks

= Fixed Most Annoying Bugs = header = true show = id, status, summary bugid = 11428, 12228 comment#11428 = This bug was destroyed by cbradney in r19179. This bug did not even graduate to ''The Dirty Dozen comment#12228 = Bug Fixed prior to 1.5 release!

Related

 * Most Desired Features
 * Bugs_to_be_Buried