On Monday 17 August 2009 09:36:16 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > Until a discussion here earlier today (re: getting the coyness of > the kerning box) I was unaware that the toolbars in the Story > Editor could be detached. I knew about the main Scribus window, > but it never dawned on me that I could also detach the toolbars > in the Story Editor. So I did so, and I am thrilled to discover > that there is no longer a problem with the kerning box. > > However, the detached toolbars stay on the desktop even when I > minimize Scribus. Right now I am writing this e-mail and I have > to drag the window away from the toolbars lest they obscure the > e-mail compose window. > > I also have this problem with Inkscape, but not with any floating > toolbars in any other application. > > I have Scribus 1.3.5 Rc3 on Ubuntu Jaunty x86_64. My video chip > is nVidia Quadro 140M and I am using the open source driver. The > desktop is standard Ubuntu Gnome 2.26.1, at 1680 x 1050. > > I don't know if the problem is in Scribus, Gnome or the video > driver. Or maybe all three are not playing nice with each other. > > Before I file a bug report, has anyone else experienced this? > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus The "bug" if you want to call it that, was not displaying the full content of the toolbars in the first place. I was able to display all the tools on two rows with room left over. That should be the default setup. There is no logical reason for not using two rows. . Just because we can put things on drop down mini menus doesn't mean that is what we should do.
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