On Saturday 28 November 2009 02:18:14 Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Samstag, 28. November 2009 07:37:45 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > > Please, this is a serious question, and I will be annoyed if it turns > > into a flame war. > > > > I know there have been discussions in the past of the problems with Qt > > in a certain distro. I won't name it, but it starts with U. > > > > I have been happily using that distro for several years, but have > > recently decided it's time to expand my horizons. > > > > I dimly recall from discussions here that the three most strongly > > recommended distros for Scribus are Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse. > > > > I love Debian package management, so I installed Debian testing. > > Unfortunately, there is a bug in Gnome 2.28.x that causes the user to > > lose the desktop, window manager and panels. I spent days trying to > > find a workaround or repair it, and finally gave up. Then I installed > > Debian unstable, only to have it fail to boot. Plus, the only good > > thing I could say about testing is that it has great package > > management. Otherwise it is not very polished. > > > > Two days ago I installed Fedora 12. Just now I lost the window manager > > and panels again. Sure enough, it uses Gnome 2.28.0. > > > > >>From past experience it is unrepairable unless I reinstall. And then it > > > > will just happen again. > > > > I have no idea why it happens to me. It must be some application that I > > install. But I do know that I absolutely need all the applications I > > install. So if a distro can't handle one of them, then it's not the > > distro for me. > > > > For the current saga I bought a new hard disk for my laptop. My old > > hard disk with the U distro is sitting on the shelf. I can always go > > back to it. But I want to move on. > > > > Oh, and I have tried and tried to love KDE, but it is hopeless. I just > > can't stand looking at it. > > > > So is OpenSuse my next stop? Or what? > > I don't know what your next stop will or should be, but there are > definitely better forums than the Scribus list for your particular problem. > > Cheers, > > Christoph
Well Scribus does color your choice of OS. I run Slackware 13 but use XFCE instead of KDE4. I like the combination. KDE4 is horrid but the Qt4 libraries are nevertheless required for Scribus. KDE3/Qt3 was fine but that is not what the latest Scribus is built around. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
