[scribus-dev] Separation of the Align & Distribute buttons

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

2010/12/6 Drew Vogel wrote:

> I have users who are still using the 1.3.3 branch primarily because the
> lion's share of their work consists of selecting items, aligning in one
> dimension and distributing in the other dimension. For these users, the same
> task requires 50% more clicks in 1.3.9 than it does in 1.3.3. I would favor
> (and be willing to work on) moving the align and distribute tabs into
> separate windows so that they can be displayed on the screen at the same
> time, but not by default. I would also be satisfied with the tabs being
> detachable like GIMP or Photoshop, but I don't have the time for such an
> ambitious project.

Sounds like a question for Jean Ghali who works on modularization of
PP. If free docking will be implemented there, same magic could be
applied to other dialogs.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org