[Scribus] Metacity bug

[PLinnell]

On Saturday 22 October 2005 23:01, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Saturday 22 October 2005 22:50, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:42:06 +0200
> >
> > Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:
> > > > > the menu is going to disappear in 1.3.x sometime.
> > > >
> > > > At risk of asking a dumb question, which one is the menu? 
> > > > The Show Properties/Colours selection, or the text
> > > > colour/font selection?
> > >
> > > err..
> > > Menu.. Style->Colours
> > > or
> > > Properties Palette->Text tab, Text fill or line.. etc
> >
> > Ah.  So what you're saying is that this issue will indeed go away
> > eventually, whether the problem with Metacity is ever fixed or
> > not, and everything will be back to appearing in a box instead of
> > overflowing the screen.
> >
> > Or have I missed something somewhere along the way here?
>
> The Style menu will disappear completely. Its hard to maintain and
> not very flexible, and likes to discover bugs in window
> managers/themes :).
>
> Craig

If I recall correctly, this might be a Qt/KDE theme issue and fixed in 
rawhide (if you dare).

Work around is to switch the theme either in KDE (if you runKDE) or 
qtconfig. I seem to recall Bluecurve is the guilty party.

Peter