<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 6 Nov 2018, at 12:00, <a href="mailto:scribus-request@lists.scribus.net" class="">scribus-request@lists.scribus.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">It's no secret that the Drop Shadow pane sucks. It's often unresponsive and unnecessarily complicated to use. IIRC, Franz introduced the current layout a while back just for testing purposes, and ever since it seems no-one found the time to revert it back to its original layout, which was more in line with rest of the UI.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well here’s hoping it gets changed soon- anything that saves a mouse click is worth it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An Update on the spinning ball of death:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was still experiencing the spinning ball when working on the supposed clean file that I created afresh in Scribus. So, I was trying to select a small frame and found it difficult - I then switched on ‘make frame edges visible’ - OMG what is that frame overlapping two pages doing there !!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was on one of the Master pages and must have got there buy a Select All process when copying frames form the IDML files</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now deleted, I have a very responsive Scribus again</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a long experience with DTP that goes back to before computers, and I still maintain that there is ALWAYS a reason why these problems occur. You just have to look for the problem</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keep up the good work</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">kind regards</div><div class="">Colin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>