I like the right click option. It seems like lots of apps these days have a lot of contextual menus. Acrobat which I use heavily relies on right click menus.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:33 AM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote: > a.l.e said the following at 05/20/2009 12:40 AM : > > hi doc, > > > >>>>>> OK, I've tried everything I can think of, and also googled, and > looked > >>>>>> in the index of the fancy new manual... > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ...and I simply cannot figure out how to remove a colour stop. > Someone > >>>>>> please put me out of my misery. > >>>>>> > >>>>> It's on p. 121 of the manual. Place the cursor above a gradient stop, > >>>>> press the left mouse button and drag the stop away. > >>>>> > >>>> Drag it where? > >>>> > >>> Downwards > >>> > >> Please consider making this more neophyte-friendly. > >> > > please consider making a suggestion on bugs.scribus.net :-) > > I'll try to do that later today. > > > > > i guess, that it would a good idea to change the cursor to a "x" (or > > something tells the user that she is going to delete the color stop), > > when it is too far away from the gradient axis... > > Really, I think the whole "drag it away" paradigm is pretty alien. One > should be able to delete the stop in at least two other ways, because that > one is so peculiar: > > 1. Just hitting "delete" when the stop is selected. > 2. Right click when the stop is selected should bring up a menu with at > least two entries: (a) "delete"; (b) a colour wheel. > > I'm not certain that converting to an "x" would be much help to the user > who doesn't already know about how this works, since he would, like me, > stop trying to move in a vertical direction the moment that he sees that no > such movement takes place, so he would never move very far away from the > initial vertical location. > > Doc > > -- > Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 260 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > URL: < > http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090520/602901ec/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090520/00438f77/attachment.htm>
