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

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

The Dirty Dozen

Candidates

Brainstorming & Nominations

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)<

This bug was destroyed by cbradney in r19179. This bug did not even graduate to The Dirty Dozen

The Properties window sometimes stops being updated when switching to a different object → 10182 (nominated by Ulrich Klauer)

commentary by nominator

RTL support → 3965 (nominated by Kunda (talk))

This bug opens up the use for Scribus for a multitude of people around the world.

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) → 11574 (nominated by JLuc)

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.

Search doesn't center on result + only searches current frame → (todo : search and find bugs #) (nominated by JLuc)

Search and replace text is one of the most common operation anybody has to perform when working on documents.

Impossible selection across multiple linked frames → 6241 (nominated by JLuc)

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.

Copy'n'Pasting text from another document should not overwrite the current styles.

Style conflicts should be well managed, with user's guidances when required.

Background

Thread on the ML started by JLuc on May 2014.
Heavily inspired by the LibreOffice model: