[Scribus] GCC 4 picklist

[Peter Linnell]

>     Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:25:25 -0600
>     From: Frank Cox <melville.theatre at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
>  Subject: [Scribus] GCC 4 picklist
>       To: 
> 
> I installed Fedora Core 4 on this computer the other day and
> recompiled Scribus using the included GCC 4.  Now, when I click to
> select my text font or text colour, instead of getting a vertical
> scrolling list in a window like I used to, I get a full screen
> multi-column list of the available choices.
> 
> This is not necessarily a bad thing as you get kind of a panoramic
> overview of the available colours (for example), so it's quicker to
> select something that looks good.  However, when the available screen
> space is less than the number of available choices, the end of the
> list goes off of the right-hand side of the screen and can't be seen.
> 
> How can I either get the vertical scrolling list back?  Alternatively,
> how can I move over to the right to see the rest of the available
> choices?

This seems to possibly be either a window manager bug or a Qt theme bug with
the default Bluecurve.

Try  switching the theme to another KDE theme like Plastik. I have used KDE
and Plastik on Fedora-4 and this was not an issue.

Peter