[scribus] How to quickly highlight text/image objects on a certain part of a page

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:50:05PM +0200, ale rimoldi wrote:
> there are already a few such "shortcuts" in scribus and i don't have
> the feeling that we need more of them.
> i think that you agree that this is not one of the basic features
> everybody has to learn about when starting to work with scribus.
> 
> don't get me wrong. it's a good request. the feature should be in
> scribus.
> i'm just not convinced that left to right and right to left mouse
> movements are the best way to trigger it.
> 

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> by greedy i mean that it get's as much as it can (that is everything
> tat could be selected gets selected)
> 
> the non greedy selection only keeps the items that are completely in
> the selection area.
> 
> 
> and now back to the way inkscape is doing it :-)
> 
> you just press the alt-key while selecting and you have to make sure
> that the key is down when releasing the mouse.

That makes a lot more sense, and doesn't leave the user scratching their
head wondering what happened. :) 

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