[scribus-dev] should Properties be drawn and quartered?

[Louis Desjardins]

2012/6/26 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>

>  It's an idea which occurred to me as I was making a text frame that I
> intended to create columns in.
>
> What if we had an item in the context menu that said, for example, "Text
> Tab", so that if you selected it, up popped a free-floating equivalent to
> the Text tab of Properties, with all its settings, and it would stay open
> until I closed it? If I selected a different text frame, its settings
> applied there.
> Similarly, I could bring up a Shape tab by right-clicking a polygon or
> shape, an Image tab if I right-clicked an image frame.
>
> This is just some free-form musing about the mess that Properties has
> become.
> Perhaps the best way to conquer Properties is to draw and quarter it...
>

:-)

I believe that this is where we are trying to go now. The PP would
contextually offer the user the settings that are relevant to the active
object. When in a Text frame, text settings, when in an image frame, image
settings. Not even the need for a right-click.

Ale could elaborate on this.

Louis

>
> Greg
>
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