Hi All, One problem that many GUI applications have is that of selecting smaller objects that are "under" larger ones. Scribus certainly has this issue with objects such as lines or frames of any type.
One way to select a smaller frame that is under a larger frame is to draw a selection box starting in the margin (and hence outside any frame) and encompassing the smaller frame. However, this seems to be counter-intuitive to many people (some people I've taught this to repeatedly still fail to select such frames). So, I would like to suggest an additional approach. Enable a system similar to the Alt-Tab implemented by many windowing systems that lets the user cycle between a list of possibilities. There could be a few modes: 1. If no objects are selected on the current page, then cycle between all objects on the page 2. If the currently selected object covers other objects, cycle between all of those 3. If multiple objects are selected, cycle between all of those - and possibly any objects that they cover. I am thinking that Alt-Click would be a reasonable gesture for this operation, but I seem to recall that some of the systems (Mac or Windows) only supports 2 qualifier keys for mouse clicks, so maybe we need something else, such as perhaps Ctrl-Tab? Cheers! Nik
