[scribus] use of "Hand" causes Scribus to flip out

[ale rimoldi]

hi cat,

> Maybe not flip out, but sometimes when I use the hand tool
> (Spacerbar) to skootch my document around, nothing happens, but the
> white arrow tool will begin blinking for upwards of a minute or more.
> 
> clearly, I've done something wrong, but is this a bug? should Scribus
> simply throw out a dialogue saying "can't do that" and not be
> paralyzed for so long?

yes, it should work as you wrote...

... the question is: what error / deficiency should it have caught?

ciao
a.l.e