On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 22:02, Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>wrote:
No snobbery at all. 80% of Scribus issues that can't be resolved are related > to Ubuntu, and the reason is that Canonical is heavily modifying the Qt > libraries used by Scribus. As a result, Scribus and other Qt programs, like > Fontmatrix, cease to work reliably in some cases. Ubuntu doesn't have a > monopoly here, and we had issues with earlier versions of SUSE Linux as > well > in the past, but these are gone now. That's no guarantee for the future, > and > we don't know what issues with modified Qt versions on other distros will > surface in the future, but currently, *buntu is the culprit. > > Scribus is developed according to the official Qt documentation and relies > on > distros assuring compatibility. Ubuntu has failed to provide this > compatibility for years already. And despite Ubuntu's popularity, we won't > adapt to their modifications, one reason being that Scribus is > cross-platform, i.e. also available for Windows, OS X, OS/2 and some Unix > versions. Please do not expect us to break Scribus on all other distros and > platforms just to please Ubuntu. > Now this was useful to me at least. I didn't know any of this stuff about Ubuntu and Scribus. For the most part I have liked working with Ubuntu except for the graphics apps. I am really wanting to get into OpenSUSE even more now and give it a try. I will still keep Ubuntu on this old machine just because it is interesting. So thanks for this information. It helps to understand a little about what is going on. -- StevenD Do you want it fast, good, or cheap? Choose any two. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20091020/2a7bb140/attachment.htm>
