[scribus] Spinning Ball of Death

[Gregory Pittman]

On 11/7/18 10:12 AM, Colin Madwolf wrote:
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>> On 6 Nov 2018, at 12:00, scribus-request at lists.scribus.net wrote:
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>> It's no secret that the Drop Shadow pane sucks. It's often unresponsive and unnecessarily complicated to use. IIRC, Franz introduced the current layout a while back just for testing purposes, and ever since it seems no-one found the time to revert it back to its original layout, which was more in line with rest of the UI.
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> Well here’s hoping it gets changed soon- anything that saves a mouse click is worth it.
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> An Update on the spinning ball of death:
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> I was still experiencing the spinning ball when working on the supposed clean file that I created afresh in Scribus.  So, I was trying to select a small frame and found it difficult - I then switched on ‘make frame edges visible’  - OMG what is that frame overlapping two pages doing there !!!
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> It was on one of the Master pages and must have got there buy a Select All process when copying frames form the IDML files

Hi Colin,

I usually keep the frames visible at all times. If I want to see how the page looks without them, I click Preview Mode from the toolbar (note that you can't edit while in Preview Mode).

Greg