-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MaHan wrote: > Hi, > in your current Ubuntu Newsletter #19 there is a part about Scribus as the > "Feature of the week": > > http://tinyurl.com/y69f3u
I was the one who choose the Feature of the Week for Issue 19, and decided on Scribus in large part due to some personal experiences involving people sending me MS Publisher files and not understanding why they were useless to me, given that Scribus is available cross-platform and even with whatever bugs it may have being a generally recommended application out of what's available. Maybe we'll even get lucky and its presence in the UWN will help attract the right sort of attention to address your bugs. > > The > fact is, Scribus users, contributors (like myself), developers have > been trying to attract Ubuntu makers' attention to various grave issues > in Ubuntu for many months, but these attempts have been widely ignored. > > E.g. this bug report from April 2nd: > > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/scribus/+bug/37711 > > has > been analysed and identified as an issue with broken QT modifications > in Ubuntu, help has been offered by Scribus developers and Scribus deb > packager, but there has been no reaction, nor the slightest attempt to > solve the issue or at least get in touch with people who'd offered help. > > We've > created a special metabug for all Ubuntu/Kubuntu issues which > influence Scribus performance on this platform, to help our users to > deal with them: > > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4423 > > IMHO, > until these issues are seriously taken care of by Ubuntu, recommending > Ubuntu users to use Scribus on Ubuntu would be a bad piece of advise. > > I do hope you can forward these message to somebody who is willing to deal > with these issues > > best regards > Maciej Hanski > > This part is all well out of my hands, but I hope Andreas Lloyd's reply addressed that adequately. > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQc9a6iO+5ByUi/QRAkd8AJ9xNllFq2S62lZmaoFJuM0UTrpJBgCgk8Fj w/F36jtNKObOuzaoFS+/0o4= =P9wN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
