Scribus doesn't appear to honour symbolic links. For example, I have a directory linked as follows:
~/docs -> /opt/user/scribus/misc/docs I have aother directory, ~/pics (a real directory, not a symbolic link). When i load a file from ~/docs, the selection box magically turns my selection into /opt/buser/scribus/misc/docs Now when I want something out of ~/pics the selection box defaults to /opt/user/scribus/misc/docs, and I have to climb the whole darn directory tree again to get back to ~/pics, which kind of defeats the purpose of having made that symbolic link.
