On Friday 14 October 2005 01:49, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hi all, > > In an answer to Karl Sinn, Craig Bradney wrote: > > No, its an issue with the current tabs implementation of the 1.3.0 > > properties palette. We have plans to split the palette so we are looking > > to fix up other things first. > > Hmmm, what does that mean? Do you really plan to remove one of the most > appealing features of Scribus? I don't know how others feel about it, > but at least to me the properties palette is one of the "killer > features" of Scribus, some kind of powerful "command centre" for page > items/frames. From a usability point of view, I think one of the > advantages of Scribus is the combining of related features in one place > (preferences, context menu, properties palette), which is a stark (and > very welcome) contrast to software like QuarkXPress, where features are > spread all over the GUI. > > And while I am at it: In case the properties palette can be saved, I > would like to suggest getting somehow back to the layout as it is in > 1.2x with the respective items (X,Y,Z, Text etc.) on top of the palette. > This is much more effective and user friendly than the current layout, > at least in my personal view. >
I agree, that the way it was on 1.2.x seems to be faster to use. Also I am worried about the splitting of the pallete. Won't this cause too many windows at once ? Or too much open/close actions to have fewer windows ? Best regards Gustavo -- Angulo S?lido - Tecnologias de Informa??o http://angulosolido.pt
