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

[cedric.gemy at gmail.com]

Hi Greg

the purpose is to have a PP in 2 parts (content / container) that are
completely context sensitive so that you get activated only what's need.

In your text, i read something like what gimp did in the new text tool :
options just above the frame to avoid mouse to travel all the time along
the screen. That could be productive, not as a real shortcut scheme
could be. But i guess we have not reach that point actually.

cedric

> 2012/6/26 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com <mailto:gpittman at iglou.com>>
>
>     On 06/26/2012 08:53 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>>     2012/6/26 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com
>>     <mailto: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.
>>
>>
>     But the point is, there are tabs which are context-specific and
>     those which are not. I can imagine working with a text frame,
>     having a free-floating text tab, and yet in the remnants of
>     Properties working with XYZ tab functions. You would leave in
>     Properties those features which might apply to various objects.
>
>
> Yes, that's the point. The PP lets you act on what you're on. So,
> there would still be a bit of redundancy in the PP but each pane you
> see has it all for what you're at.
>
> Louis 
>
>
>     Greg
>
>
>
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