On launch PP does not load in to a sidebar(horizontal or vertical) and will open to maximum window size

[luzpaz]

Manjaro 16.10 Qt5.7 Build 99d6f57
Testing via Appimage

How to reproduce:

1. open scribus-indigo
2. Cancel' Open New Document' window
3. Press F2
   Result: PP opens in dialog in the center of the screen
4. Double click dialog title
   Result: Expands the full length and width of the screen
5. Double click dialog title
   Result: returns to center of screen
6. move dialog box to sidebar
   Result: no sidebar is triggered

Diagnosis: When PP is open it opens in a separate window. I can see this because when I alt-tab to a different application I can still see the PP dialog visible outside of Scribus.

[luzpaz]

Just noticed that in the terminal there is a error:
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 699, resource id: 9055131, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0

[nitramr]

I can't reproduce it on Ubuntu 16.04. Property panel is shown inside the dock.

[luzpaz]

@gregp-scribus can you reproduce ?

[gregp-scribus]

Not sure which version I'm using, but I don't see this. When I started it, my PP was in the left dock where I left it. I closed PP, closed Scribus and restarted. When I opened PP after restarting, it opened in the left dock.
My version is one or two before "Scribus Indigo Dock" was added to the About > Scribus dialog.

[nitramr]

@gregp-scribus sounds like the wanted behaviour. If you close a panel and close Scribus afterwards the workspace will save for the next start.

If the behaviour is different it can help to delete the settings folder. Because in old settings file the data will store in another way for restoring. You can try it in the lates built from today: https://transfer.sh/153JzN/scribus-gita9d1218-glibc2.14-x86-64.appimage

[luzpaz]

@nitramr i need to fix this ongoing issue of gtk3 and hidep problems on Manjaro to fully test this appropriately. Is there a way to start scribus up using a different prefs file or perhaps I should i nuke ~/.scribus/ ?

[nitramr]

I can try to set a new settings path like ~/.scribus-indigo/

Scribus Indigo will store the settings there independent of the regular installed Scribus. Otherwise if you want to have a clean Scribus Indigo now, you can delete the whole settings folder (~/.scribus/). If you want to delete only the workspace settings remove following file in ~/.scribus/

• prefs150.xml

and following file for all other settings if needed:

• scribus150.rc

[gregp-scribus]

And maybe save your original: mv .scribus .scribus.bak

[luzpaz]

What would be nice is if https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13248 was implemented...especially for testers who are testing multiple builds

[gregp-scribus]

What I see on Fedora 24/KDE is some pickiness that is involved with docking but not failure to dock. Even with switching back and forth from scribus-indigo and 1.5.3svn, I don't see either one messing up the other.
When I start indigo the PP is docked to the left. If I drag it out, I usually can't get it dock somewhere else unless I let it go then click-drag again. The place that triggers the dock space to open is a little bit tricky but not irritating, since by sliding the PP around it will be found pretty easily.
One nice advantage of indigo is that in 1.5.3svn you can't enlarge the Outline window, but with indigo you can.

[nitramr]

Yes, if you drag a panel out of a dock you can't dock it directly to an edge. You have to drop it to create a new container which you can dock on any edge you want. Or you can drop it in an existing dock container.

[luzpaz]

I can try to set a new settings path like ~/.scribus-indigo/

@nitramr do you mind creating this just for testing purposes? Then when indigo merges with trunk we can remove this?

[luzpaz]

@nitramr or kill 2 birds with one stone and implement #13248 using latest trunk since @MrB74 latest commits:

• scribusproject/scribus@465154e
• scribusproject/scribus@b27997b
• scribusproject/scribus@15c324a
• scribusproject/scribus@c9113bc
• scribusproject/scribus@ca86b32

[nitramr]

Yes I mean a temporary fix while development. I will try to fix the params or think of better Solutions.

[nitramr]

Oh my mistake, it is already fix :D. Ok, I will implement the fix.

[nitramr]

I have add the latest code changes from 21st November. 3d800ea

[luzpaz]

Awesome, @MrB74 just committed code for #13248 in scribusproject/scribus@f8d0609 so perhaps we can modify the README to tell people to invoke scribus-indigo with the new prefs flag. I have yet to test it out.

[nitramr]

I found the reason for floating panels in separate windows. Workspace load function can't handle panels which are not defined in prefs file. I have opened a new issue and will close this one.
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