definition of object-sizes do not work anymore

[Daniel Robitaille]

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From: Marc Schoechlin <[e-mail]>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:57:48 +0200
Subject: scribus: definition of object-sizes do not work anymore
Package: scribus
Version: 1.2.4.1.dfsg-1ubuntu4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi !

The new release provided with dapper seems to have a broked
object-size-dialog.
(the old release provided with dapper did not have this problem).

How to reproduce this bug:
1. Start scribus
2. Create a new document (File->New)
3. Create a new object, i.e. a text-area, a picture-area
4. Right-klick the object and select the menu item
  "Show properties"
5. Select the X,Y,Z submenu
6. I you now try to change the values of "width" or "heigth" it is not
  possible to enter something useful.
  (the same problem occurs if you try to use the arrows to modify the
   values)

This problems seems to be depended to the settings of the
language-environment
If you start scribus with "LANG=C scribus" the problem doesn`t
appear anymore.

Thanks for maintaining this cool peace of software.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-23-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages scribus depends on:
ii gs-esp 8.15.2.dfsg.0ubuntu1-0ubuntu1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libart-2.0 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2 1.2.0-0ubuntu5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libfreetyp 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.3-1ubuntu5 GCC support library
ii libgcrypt1 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgnutls1 1.2.9-2ubuntu1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-err 1.1-4 library for common error values an
ii libice6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblcms1 1.13-1 Color management library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-1ubuntu6 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.0.3-1ubuntu5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1ubuntu1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libtiff4 3.7.4-1ubuntu3.1 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu9 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxml2 2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1 GNOME XML library
ii python-tk 2.4.2-0ubuntu3 Tkinter - Writing Tk applications
ii python2.4 2.4.3-0ubuntu4 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6ubuntu4 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages scribus recommends:
ii gsfonts-x11 0.17ubuntu4 Make Ghostscript fonts available t
pn python-imaging-tk <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-scalable 6.8.2.1-5 scalable fonts for X

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[outreal (outreal)]

Hi,
I searched over the net, and it seems to be a problem present in all *ubuntu.
For me, starting scribus with "LANG=C scribus" doesn't work. Instead, I have to use "LC_ALL=C scribus". The downside is that accents don't work anymore (I have a french keyboard).

Finally, my solution was to remove the package "scim-qtimm". That way I can start scribus normally, I can enter values for sizes (manually or with the spinbox) and accented characters are working.