[scribus-dev] Request: List of all mouse+key combos that help speed up workflow

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Wed Mar 16 08:08:28 UTC 2016



> On 16 Mar 2016, at 00:47, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/15/2016 07:39 PM, JLuc wrote:
>> Le 15/03/2016 22:07, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
>>>> https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Keyboard_Shortcuts_by_Key
>>>> - E :     Edit Contents (text in a text frame, or image location in an
>>>> image frame)
>>>> - Control-Y : Edit with Story Editor
>>>> - T : Insert Text Frame
>> 
>>> These work Ok for me in 1.4.6 and 1.5.1, except that opening Story
>>> Editor is now Ctrl-T (which makes more sense intuitively).
>> 
>> Oh. Maybe this could be written there as a 1.5 side note.
>> 
>> As you mention it later these shortcut should be shown in the menus or
>> hints,
>> but I dont see any kbd shortcut reminder in the menus nor in the buttons
>> hints
>> for these basic actions.
>> 
>> In the 'Insert' main menu, there is absolutely no keyboard shortcut shown
>> (but fyi some do appear in the 'Insert > Glyph' submenu).
>> 
>> And there is no shortcut shown as (E) or (T) in the hint that hover
>> over "create text frame" or "edit as story" buttons.
>> But there are some for "Undo (CTRL+Z)", "Create PDF (CTRL+SHIFT+P)"
>> for example, which do work well.
>> 
>> This is both on 1.5.0 and 1.5.2svn on Ubuntu 14.04
> 
> Hmm. My 1.5.2svn (Fedora23) shows the keyboard shortcut for most of the
> toolbar icons.
> 
> Exceptions:
> Arc
> Spiral
> Calligraphic Line
> Measurements
> Copy Item Properties
> Barcode
> PDF Push Button
> PDF Check Box
> PDF Radio Button
> PDF Text Field
> PDF Combo Box
> PDF List Box
> Text Annotation
> Link Annotation
> 3D Annotation
> Edit in Preview Mode
> 
> I thought it might be a language issue, but when I check French and
> German, these have the shortcuts too.
> So it's a puzzle.
> 
> 

Its jluc's OS or preferences getting in the way. Ubuntu strikes again?

Craig


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