[Scribus] Usability needs attention -- time for a feature moratorium?

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 20:18:46 schrieb Michael Higgins:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:11:56 +0100
>
> Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 19:48:44 schrieb jwminer at accessvt.com:
> > > Laszlo wrote:
> > > > Seriously, user needs are very different, so every user has a
> > > > different
> > > > priority of necessary features. I have already produced a book
> > > >
> > > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Success_stories#172_page_ECG_workbo
> > > >ok_f or_medical_students
> > > >
> > > > using scribus 1.2, so I think a have the authority to say, that
> > > > scribus
> > > > is "basically usable". I am personally ready to work around the
> > > > bugs in
> > > > scribus, as long as I can do what I want. For me the most
> > > > important feature missing is proper text
> > > > hyphenation/justification. I strongly disagree to a feature
> > > > freeze that may hinder the development of a stable
> > > > version with good text justification.
> > >
> > > Yes, yes yes! The lack of good hyphenation/justification makes it
> > > impossible for me to use Scribus for most of my text-heavy projects.
> > > I can learn user-interface quirks. I can't do anything about an
> > > essential feature that's missing except wait for it to be
> > > implemented.
> >
> > The feature is already implemented in 1.3.4, but this is no stable
> > version. 1.3.5 will come with hundreds of bugfixes, and it will be
> > (hopefully) much more stable than 1.3.4, but there has a lot to be
> > done until a new stable version with all the goodness can be released.
> >
> > All of you can help to speed things up by downloading and testing
> > 1.3.5svn on a regular basis, and by reporting bugs.
>
> Is there a Gentoo ebuild for 1.3.5svn yet? I'd just try to alter the
> scribus-1.3.4-r1.ebuild, but it looks for the source as a tar.gz.

Nothing I know of. You probably need to build 1.3.5 from svn sources. See 
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install1 and 
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install4.

>
> My first thought was that there should be a daily 1.3.5svn snapshot
> available at sourceforge to work with. Is that a big problem to make
> available?

The only issue I see is time ;)

>
> Discussing this is NOT really within my comfort zone, but I'd like to
> help. If I need to make my own tarball, what's the bash script I'd
> use? '-)

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I wiil have the right answer for 
you ;)

Christoph