[scribus] search and replace in the story editor

[Martin Zaske LINGO]

On 19.01.2022 22:13, Craig Bradney wrote:
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>> On 19 Jan 2022, at 18:51, Martin Zaske LINGO <martin.zaske at lingo-benin.org> wrote:
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>> Hello list,
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>> Scribus has become so good over the years, that now I am just irritated
>> by some small details. This is a compliment, we use Scribus a lot and
>> have come to appreciate it muchly.
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>> Version is 1.5.7. For a long time, I had trouble seeing the search
>> results, when I do "search and replace" in the story editor. The
>> highlight used to be "light gray" and now "nothing". (When I do search
>> in the main GUI, search hits are clearly marked in white on juicy blue.)
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>> I tried several themes for my Scribus but that did not improve this problem.
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>> Normally, our text is "ready to publish" when we import it into a
>> Scribus document. But there are certain pre-flight checks that I prefer
>> to do in the story editor. Like searching for double-spaces, or for ugly
>> quotes and apostrophes. But a search without seeing the hits is rather
>> frustrating.
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>> Please advise if I can myself tweak the colour of search highlight in
>> the story editor. Does it affect other users too? Is there a reason why
>> the highlight is different in the story editor from a text frame in the
>> main GUI?
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>> greetings,
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>> Martin
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> Hi Martin
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> I’m not sure what could be affecting your Story Editor. It is a normal Qt widget and not a Scribus canvas widget and so will take theming from the general interface information passed to Scribus/Qt libraries. On mine, its certainly visible. 
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> We used to have colours electability in story editor but it was too often conflicting with dark themes so we remove the customisation and let the user interface standards determine colours.
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> You could of course back up your preferences and try with new/temporary ones to see if that makes a difference, though I am guessing its not that given we remove the colour setting code some time ago. 
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> thanks
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> Dear Craig,
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> thank you for your interest.
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> I do not fully understand your technical details. You write about
> story editor "will take theming from the general interface information"
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> So I double-checked that as "theme" I have "Windows" in my Scribus 1.5.7.
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> Then I changed my Windows settings from some discreet yellow tones to
> some drastic purple.
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> All the window headers in Scribus and my task bar etc now show that
> purple, but my search-results in the story editor are unchanged: the
> found text stays black and is underlayed with a very light gray, which
> does not contract with the white background of my story editor. So
> possibly I am doing something wrong, or I am not getting what you are
> telling me, sorry.
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> When you say "On mine, its certainly visible." are you seeing other
> highlighting that light-gray?
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> In the main gui I see very clear white-on-blue for search results, if
> we could have the same in story editor, that would really help.
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> Thank you for clarifying, and for the indirect encouragement in "mine
> is visible"; I am heading there,
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