Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 in Nuremberg, starting on Wednesday

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a.l.e

This year's Libre Graphics Meeting will happen in Nuremberg on May 28–31.

If you're in Germany or not too far away for Nuremberg, you are welcome to join the Scribus developers and users that will be there!

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/

Of course, you will also be able to meet people from very different Libre Graphics projects from all around the world!

a.l.e

Four brave Scribus people met in Nürnberg, had fun, good food, enjoyed several LGM talks, and... had long discussions!

The most concrete output is a set of "Metabugs" in the Scribus issue tracker: they should help us tracking what is needed (or desirable) for the release of next Stable release and what is left to do:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17538

Of course it's not a final list, but the current main topics are:

- fonts management (some "minor" tweaks on how active fonts can be selected and how they are displayed in the drop down)
- Inital support for RTL documents (we already support RTL text, but we would like to gradually make it possible to create RTL documents, starting by being able to set RTL as the default mode in the text frames!)
- A few improvements to the Scripter (the main one being a tentative to make the scripter console dockable)
- Improvements to the .sla file format for Scribus 1.8 (giving better names to the attributes)
- UI fixes (mainly, finishing the transition to the new palettes and the final polish to the node editor)
- Various features and bug fixes (a bin for more random tasks, that we would like to see in)  (and tasks we are anyways working on).

Everybody is welcome to help Scribus reach those goals!
(And if you think we have missed something, please raise your hands!)

And, no, this does not mean that a release of Scribus will happen soon. But having such a list might help having the release a bit sooner...

We did also let our mind wander a bit more freely and forged possible goals for the release after the next one... But this is a topic for a future post...