[Scribus] Metacity bug

[Gregory Pittman]

PLinnell wrote:

>On Saturday 22 October 2005 23:01, Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>On Saturday 22 October 2005 22:50, Frank Cox wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:42:06 +0200
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>>>Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:
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>>>>>>the menu is going to disappear in 1.3.x sometime.
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>>>>>At risk of asking a dumb question, which one is the menu? 
>>>>>The Show Properties/Colours selection, or the text
>>>>>colour/font selection?
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>>>>err..
>>>>Menu.. Style->Colours
>>>>or
>>>>Properties Palette->Text tab, Text fill or line.. etc
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>>>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?
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>>The Style menu will disappear completely. Its hard to maintain and
>>not very flexible, and likes to discover bugs in window
>>managers/themes :).
>>
>>Craig
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>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.
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Actually, you can just switch the theme in Scribus: Edit > Preferences 
 >> Theme (in General)

Greg