Hi Geoff
There are themes you can choose from, maybe that makes it look a little better.
Maybe the OS has not told Qt what theme to use well or something
Craig
On 03/03/2022, 17:18, "Geoffrey Dow" <geoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your reply Mattia,
Someone replied to me off-list with a link to an appimage (
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/1.4.9.svn/scribus-1.4.9.svn.23989-linux-x86_64.AppImage/download)
which seems to work (though its interface looks like something out of the
Windows95 era).
I had been running Linux Mint, but upgrading that saw my speakers stop
working, so I have switched to Linuxliteos until such a time as my hardware
gives up the ghost and I'm forced to move into a more modern era.
Geoff
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 10:58, Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@mapreri.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Geoffrey Dow wrote:
> > I'm running an old piece of hardware that *really* balked when I
> installed
> > 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 alike, so I want to return to 1.4 in order to lay out a
> > novel.
>
> The problem is that scribus 1.4.x requirer some pieces that are nowadays
> considered very old and deprecated, so to not get mad you'd need also an
> older version of ubuntu (or whatever you mean with "ubuntu-based").
>
> In particular, ubuntu 20.04 is no good, just looking at LTSs you'd be
> stuck with 18.04, and if that's acceptable to you, then you can get it
> from the PPA ppa:scribus/ppa.
>
> Otherwise, I don't know, did anybody prepare an appimage/snap/something
> with 1.4.8 that can run in something more recent?
> I recommend against trying to forward-port qt4 into ubuntu 20.04,
> although possible, that can easily end badly if mismanaged.
>
> --
> regards,
> Mattia Rizzolo
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