[scribus-dev] Edit Contents mode and Properties

[Louis Desjardins]

2011/10/1 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>

> On 10/01/2011 11:30 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
>
>> On 10/1/11 4:13 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM, ale rimoldi<ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  RIght. And only to make it more efficient, what tab gets selected
>>>>> could depend on the type of frame as well. Image frame would bring
>>>>> the image tab, text frame would bring the text tab.
>>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> wonderful idea!
>>>>
>>>> i wonder why nobody has thought about it, yet!!!!1!!11
>>>>
>>> It was requested AGES ago.
>>>
>>>
>>>  It was veto'd because the idea really, really sucks when you don't want
>> to edit text properties of a
>> text frame, or image properties of an image frame.
>>
>> Say you are setting up sizes, positions, borders, or colours, and then
>> every time you select a new
>> frame, it goes to the somehow "right" tab when it is not at all the right
>> tab for the purpose at
>> hand. In a lot of cases, its adding more clicks and more frustration to
>> working.
>>
>
> I think you're misunderstanding. I was only talking about Edit Contents
> mode, where yes, you might want to adjust frame position, color, shape, etc,
> but why are you in Edit Contents mode?
>

Right.

>
> If you simply select a frame of any type, it's fairly likely that you might
> use the X,Y,Z tab, so that's a different situation.
>

Correct.

Content is content and the rest is the rest. I think it would ease the work
and make it more intuitive to use the PP.

Louis

>
> Greg
>
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