[scribus] Center selected frame after zoom

[a.l.e]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:43:21 -0500
"Margaret and George McIntosh" <tenbear at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> On 2 Jan 2011 at 11:20, a.l.e wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > > On 01/01/2011 12:00 PM, Margaret and George McIntosh wrote:
> > > > I put in a feature request (#9581) to center the selected
> > frame
> > > > after zooming in. I often zoom in to a frame after selecting it.
> > I
> > > > usually have to recenter the frame on the screen and often it
> > has
> > > > even gone off screen and I have to find it. I think it would be
> > > > George
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think that some kind of augmented centering would be useful.
> > > 
> > > One might consider either having a menu item/keystroke to use to
> > > center a selected object, or perhaps just being able to grab the
> > page
> > > with the mouse and move it would not only be as good, but
> > perhaps
> > > even better.
> > 
> > currently, working with
> > 
> > - ctrl-mouse wheel to zoom
> > - mouse wheel for vertical scrolling
> > - shift-mouse wheel for horizontal scrolling (or horizontal
> > scrolling directly if you have a "good" mouse)
> > 
> > works fairly good.
> > 
> > but some shortcuts like the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in inkscape would be
> > welcome!
> > 
> > ciao
> > a.l.e
> > 
> Thanks for your comments.
> I do most of my work on my laptop, no mouse, just a touchpad.

on most laptops you have a stripe on the right which is a scroll area.
most of the rest of the laptops let you scroll by moving two finger at a time on the touchpad.

> Shortcuts, menu item/keystroke or grabbing the page would work well.
> How about a hot key to center the selected frame?

as i said, a mechanism like the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in inkscape would be very welcome...

the question is: which ones are useful in DTP and which keybindings would be good for scribus?



ciao
a.l.e