On 10/09/2012 12:30 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: > Gregory Pittman said the following at 10/09/2012 09:20 AM : > >>> >>> It looks to me like whatever call is used to obtain the information that is >>> supposed to be put into the dialog is simply hanging, so the information is >>> never available to display on the screen. >> >> Try changing the directory setting in Preferences and see if that makes >> any difference. >> > > I assumed that you meant: > > Edit | Preferences | General | Documents > > When I do that and hit the "Change" button... I get a "Choose a Directory" > window that never populates. > > That, presumably, is a big, fat, hairy clue to the cognoscenti. > > Doc > > PS FWIW, the actual entry currently in the Documents part of the dialog is my > home directory: /home/n7dr. > Hmm. This suggests some kind of problem that is not Scribus's fault, not that I know where the fault lies.
Greg
