Most Annoying Bugs

Announcement: Documentation and Organization

Function of this page is to track the Most Annoying Bugs that affect usage of Scribus and that meet the criteria listed below

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

Candidate criteria

As for LibreOffice, Hard hacks should meet the below requirements :

• Be relatively 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

Candidates

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

• Remove the "missing ghostscript" warning on startup and replace it with a warning shown when ghostscript is indeed needed → (11428) (nominated by a.l.e)
• The Properties window sometimes stops being updated when switching to a different object → 10182 (nominated by Ulrich Klauer)