Buttons blanked out in Scribus when using Unity

[James Pursey]

Binary package hint: unity

Hi,

While testing Unity in Maverick I noticed that some key buttons necessary to be able to use Scribus are blanked out, making Scribus unuseable in this environment. The buttons are Item, Insert, Page, View and Edit. I tried updating Scribus from 1.53.8 to Scribus-trunk, but the problem remains. I then upgraded the computer from Maverick to Natty to see if the problem remains in the latest version of unity, which it does. Moreover, in Natty none of the buttons are visible at all unless I click on the top panel.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.8-0ubuntu1
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Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/allscreens/options/active_plugins'
Date: Thu Jan 6 16:56:25 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
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SourcePackage: unity
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glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.37-11-generic

[James Pursey (jamespursey)]

Additional Information
I've been playing around with Scribus in Unity and have just found that it is possible to get all the buttons to function, bar the Item button which still doesn't work. The steps are as follows:
1) Open a document using Scribus
2) Maximize the Scribus window
3) Close Scribus
4) Open up the document again (this time the document opens directly with the Window maximized).

It is now possible to use the buttons Insert, Page, View and Edit.

Conversely, the bug can be "re-enabled" using the following steps:
1) Resize the Window so that it is no longer maximized
2) Leave Scribus
3) Open the document again.

The document will open in a non-maximized window and the buttons are once again in-operational.

[Gord Allott (gordallott)]

Invalid for unity, appmenu bug

[Kalle Valo (kvalo)]

Scribus is using qt, moving to appmenu-qt.

James, I tried to reproduce this bug but unfortunately I'm no scribus expert. In fact, I'm using it for the first time. Can you explain in more detail how to reproduce the bug, please? Screenshot would also help.

[James Pursey (jamespursey)]

Sorry for the time it's taken for me to reply. I've since re-installed Maverick because the bugs in Natty make it unusable right now. I'll re-install it when I have some spare time and try to send you some screen shots.

[James Pursey (jamespursey)]

I have just installed the alpha-2 version of Natty and I cannot reproduce this issue. However, I think this may be because the application buttons are no longer appearing in the top panel as they did in the alpha-1 release. It is possible that I re-encounter the problem when the Scribus buttons reappear in the top panel, which I suppose they will. I'll keep this release on my computer for as long as I am able (ie until it becomes unusable) to see how things progress.

[Michal (mekmar)]

I checked ScribusNG (1.4, dev branch, qt4 based) a minute ago. It seems to work fine, menus work, functions, for what I checked, work. Menu items are actively changing, according to tools, I'm trying to use (that was an issue back in the times of appmenu aplet in Maverick).
Stable branch of Scribus (1.3.3) doesn't work with appmenu at all (qt3 involved I suppose)

[James Pursey (jamespursey)]

The problem concerned the global menu. For a while, the global menu didn't work with qt applications and so Scribus was working fine. The global menu seems to be working with Scribus now, and I can no longer reproduce the bug. It seems to be resolved (for the moment at least).

[Miloš Jakovljević (milos-sd)]

It doesn't work for Story Editor in Scribus. I need "Insert" menu to add bullets.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Please re-open bug if this issue still persists in Precise.