>From my experience I have found kde better than gnome with scribus
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 21:55 -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
> Thanks a lot Greg! Will try 1.3.3.12 as soon as I have a version of Linux up
> and running on a machine. Looking at MEPIS and Mint right now. Mint seems to
> be a bit more "prefessional looking". MEPIS defaults to KDE, Mint to Gnome.
> That's probably the difference I'm seeing, though there should be some design
> work unique to the distros as well.
>
> I'm assuming Scribus will work with either, or is there a preference?
> PageStream will work with either, but is more closely integrated with Gnome.
> I was told that there were mainly some GTK libraries that were required, and
> that PageStream would run fine under KDE if the libraries required for the
> GIMP were loaded. MEPIS comes with the GIMP, so should be ready for
> PageStream. Is Scribus the same -- works with either but a bit better with
> one or the other?
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:55:12 -0400
> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>
> Frank Swygert wrote:
>
> > > So what version of Scribus are you running?
> >
> To be specific, use 1.3.3.12 for now. Newer versions *always* can load
> files from older versions. While there are some interesting new features
> in 1.3.5, it still has a number of drawbacks on a practical level, and
> once you save a file, you can't load it into 1.3.3.12 (there are
> workarounds).
>
> Do NOT use 1.3.4 -- this was a brief post-1.3.3.x and pre-qt4 version
> that has had no bug fixes since it was released in May, 2007.
> Unfortunately, some distros put it in their repositories, and we can't
> get them to take it out.
>
>
