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

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

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