Dear list, yesterday I wrote a request and today I received the perfect answer. I needed a certain feature and could not find it without the help from this list.
So this time, I should have known. And again this list has really helped me do my work (better). So while writing my thank-you note, it occurs to me that Scribus has evolved to have such a rich set of tools and features that often the challenge is not so much the operation of certain tools but just to find the best tool for each job (or to guess its name in English). There are programs like Firefox where I can search the settings (if I have an idea what I am looking for). I wonder whether I should submit a feature request like this: A feature that lets users search from one location through: - all tools in all the (main) menus and - through all the settings and - through the included help with an underlying thesaurus, so that (new) users could search for example subjects like font/typeface, page layout/document layout, margins/guides/bleeds, cut/crop/resize and get helpful search results even when not always knowing the correct (British / US) technical terms. I am more a linguist than a graphic designer and I would be interested to make my contribution to analyse the archive of mails here and other resources and ask more users for help and hopefully create a list or super-basic database as a basis for such a search feature. I am aware that Scribus is available in non-English versions too which needs consideration and is beyond my experience. I only ever use the English version which I perceive as the "most original" and best linked to this e-mail list. What do you think? Is a search interesting at all? Is this list good enough? The response-time is certainly amazing. Can it be done with reasonable effort? Has it been done before and could be taken over from another project? Is the idea of a thesaurus-based search helpful to non-professional or non-native-English-speaking users? It would be the joke of the year (for me) if you would answer that the search-feature does already exist in Scribus and that I just do not know where it is... Greetings, Martin -- courriel par Martin Zaske, membre de : LINGO-Bénin B.P. 48 Bassila Rep. du Bénin Tel. 00229 / 97.44.62.95 Tel. 00229 / 62.58.04.48 Organisation Non Gouvernementale Decret No. 2001-234 du 12 juillet 2001 No. d'enregistrement 6/033/P-SG STCCD-DCDI-ONG du 05 septembre 2012 Numéro IFU: 6201702245702 www.lingo-benin.org ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
