[Scribus] Scribus useability

S B sbinsandiego
Thu Jan 31 16:53:56 CET 2008


All true, John.  Hadn't thought of running Scribus through WP interface (I
started using WP when it was 4.1, so...); that would be horrifying.  And
unproductive.  Maybe even amusing.

On Jan 30, 2008 11:57 PM, John Beardmore <John at t4sltd.co.uk> wrote:

> S B wrote:
>
> > In every case, when I learned a new program, from Wordperfect to Word to
> > CorelDraw to Publisher to InDesign to Scribus, and from Lotus to Excel,
> > Excel to Filemaker, I have had to learn a new interface, new commands,
> > new ways of doing things.  I think all of us would like to have an end
> > to  constant name changes for commands, places on the toolbars, and
> > different ways of doing things.
>
> Not necessarily.  I'd hate to be running Scribus through the Wordperfect
> interface.
>
>
> >  That's never happened, and it's
> > unlikely to happen in the future.
>
> And it would kill the evolution of user interfaces stone dead if it ever
> did.
>
> Apart from which, in some parts of the commercial world, intellectual
> property issues may be preventing some UI platforms sharing 'look and
> feel'.
>
>
> Cheers, J/.
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