[scribus] 1.50 vs.1.6.0

[Craig Bradney]

> On 23 Jan 2014, at 13:02, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:48 PM, john Culleton wrote:
>> Is it reasonable to expect that 1.6.0 will present
>> the same starting layout as 1.5.0 (or nearly so)
>> when Scribus is first loaded? I am writing a
>> tutorial on cover layout and I would like to use both
>> 1.4.3 and 1.5.0 illos, assuming that 1.6.0 will be
>> out soon after the book is printed (or maybe
>> before?)
> 
> There used to be a plan to break the (dockable in v1.5) properties
> palette into multiple dockable dialogs. Frankly, I've no idea, if it
> will be part of 1.6 (it was supposed to be), or whether it's still on
> radar at all, but it's a possibility.
> 

The move to Qt5 is part of the solution. We just need to get developing with QML worked out. The CMake changes are in SVN as of this week to support this. What ends up in 1.6 will depend on resourcing.

Craig