New addiction: reading through the thousands of bug-reports on the rigourously precise Scribus bugtracking system.

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).

• 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?