On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:52, Chris Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 04:34, Craig Ringer wrote: > > This depends on the window manager's treatment of the flags set by > > Scribus. I don't remember if the splash is an unmanaged window or > > something less extreme, but either way its behaviour will depend > > largely on the window manager. > > Straight KDE setup here. Currently 3.5.1, but it's been upgraded many > times. I just tried several different "syles", including kde-classic > and the behavior is the same. > > Since Scribus is the _only app_ that exhibits such behavior, I find it > difficult to blame it on the window manager. That said, I'm not a > programmer (at least on that level) and can do little more than report > symptoms, do a little troubleshooting and mention some possible > suspects. > > Again other apps, including those qt based, such as Rosegarden (another > one that takes a while to start up as well) do not place their splash > screen on every virtual desktop. > > > When it comes to the behaviour of the splash, any tweaks would > > probably involve direct Xlib use, and that wouldn't solve any issues > > on Mac OS X or Windows. I'm not sure what the best choice is there > > beyond the already-mentioned option of not dipslaying it when you > > tell Scribus not to. > > It's not bad when the click to make it disappear works. But that isn't > always the case (nor, IMO, should it be necessary), since I update from > cvs semi-regularly I have received builds where this feature didn't > work. And sometimes, the first time you run it and it's deep in font > caching mode it likes to ignore the click, although with some styles > this is more exaggerated. > > And you're right about it being a personal thing - you don't like splash > screens at all, and I like them, but only when they are properly > behaved. With my definition of "properly behaved" based only on my > experience and what I've come to accept as normal because Scribus is > the odd guy out on this. > > It is not a show stopper, it's an annoyance, and a relatively minor one. > Scribus is a great piece of work and I'm thankful it exists. If I could > do more than report bugs and annoyances, or offer an ebuild or two, in > order to help make it better I would do so.
Found it. Fixed in 1.2.x and 1.3.x CVS now. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060322/6a899fa4/attachment.pgp
