Ok, I understood this strange behavior:
- If you open scribus
- remove all toolbars (proprieties, text propieties, layers, dispose and so on)
- The side empty grey bands rest in place, as in my attached image (look at first post)
- note: no document is opened yet, we are just in front of the nude interface
But if you:
- close and reopen scribus. We have the same interface with the side grey bars
- now add a toolbar, proprieties bar for istance, to the left or to the right side band, we'll have an empty band and the properties bar on the other
- now we can go with mouse cursor on the internal border of the added properties bar, click and drag the border.
- whether you try to enlarge proprieties bar or you shrink it, in any case, sudently the opposite side band, the one empty disappears!
- and now, finally, if you remove proprieties tab, no grey side bar rest in place empty: all central workspace result enlarged to the max width of your window/screen
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