hi keith, >>> text >>> in them in the tooltips. I don't believe the problem to be a Scribus >>> problem but rather a QT thing. I had QT4 Settings, and QT4 Designer >>> and >>> the tool tips in them were blank as well. I played with the palettes >>> in >>> the QT4 Settings program and could not effect a change. The Inactive >>> Palette being the one that controls the text in Tooltips apparently. >> >> I'm not sure what you're seeing, but I may have had a similar >> problem with Scribus 1.3.9. I could see a cream-colored box where >> the tooltip was, but the text in the tooltip box was just about the >> same color so I couldn't read it. The solution for me was to run >> qtconfig and on the first screen at GUI Style, Select GUI Style, >> choose Desktop Settings (Default). Save the settings. When I >> restarted Scribus, the problem was gone and I can see the tooltips. >> For the Scribus Preferences theme, I have the dropdown blank. >> >> You may have to translate qtconfig to whatever in your distro is the >> same thing. If you haven't tried this, see what happens. I would >> advise leaving palettes, etc., in qtconfig alone. >> --Judy M. >> USA >> >> Registered Linux User #397786 >> Being productive with VectorLinux 6.0 SOHO >> > I have both 1.3.8 and 1.5.0 svn installed. Neither of them show any > > I get the feeling that I may have Tooltips that are full of text that > is the same color as the space but can't prove it. I have tried just > about every configuation change I can find with no results but have > had some pretty wild looking layouts in Scribus. lol
do you have tweaked the look of your system at some time? ciao a.l.e
