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0002430ScribusUser Interfacepublic2005-08-28 23:17
Reporterchristoph_s Assigned Tocbradney  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
PlatformallOSallOS Versionall
Product Version1.3.1cvs 
Fixed in Version1.3.1cvs 
Summary0002430: Move items to an appropriate menu
DescriptionWith scribus 1.3.1 some menu items have moved, and others have been introduced. Notwithstanding heavy changes "under the hood", I'd like to point at some serious usability issues, some of which are already present in the 1.2.x series.

- "Action history" seems to be a candidate for the "Edit" menu

- "Distribute and Align" should be properly placed in the "Object" menu

- "View" - "Snap to Grid" and "Snap to Guide" belongs in the page menu

Moreover, it seems to me, that hyphenation should be placed in the "paragraph styles".
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ringerc

2005-08-13 05:09

reporter   ~0006098

I'm not sure I agree re action history, but I definitely agree re snap settings and dist/align. Anyone else have a viewpoint on this?

cbradney

2005-08-13 22:01

administrator   ~0006110

Disagree. The dialogs that are started from menus are moving to the Windows menu soon. I agree re the snap menu items tho. Will do this stuff soon.

christoph_s

2005-08-15 01:48

administrator   ~0006119

As it seems, moving "Action history" to the "Edit" menu isn't really popular among the folks doing the real work. It appears, however, to be quite logical to me. "Undo" is where every user does expect it: in "Edit". "Action history" is an extremely conventient extension to "Undo/Redo". So why not place it right under the "Undo" item in the "Edit" menu? Seems quite logical to me.

cbradney

2005-08-26 23:32

administrator   ~0006254

Snap is moved to page, palettes are on the windows menu (at least for now)...

plinnell

2005-08-27 11:37

viewer   ~0006258

Works fine and I like the change, but now cascade and tile are greyed all the time. Found this on IRC with ExScite.

plinnell

2005-08-28 23:17

viewer   ~0006267

Tile, Cascade now fixed.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2005-08-13 02:09 christoph_s New Issue
2005-08-13 05:09 ringerc Note Added: 0006098
2005-08-13 05:09 ringerc Status new => acknowledged
2005-08-13 22:01 cbradney Note Added: 0006110
2005-08-13 22:01 cbradney Status acknowledged => assigned
2005-08-13 22:01 cbradney Assigned To => cbradney
2005-08-15 01:48 christoph_s Note Added: 0006119
2005-08-26 23:32 cbradney Status assigned => resolved
2005-08-26 23:32 cbradney Fixed in Version => 1.3.1cvs
2005-08-26 23:32 cbradney Resolution open => fixed
2005-08-26 23:32 cbradney Note Added: 0006254
2005-08-27 11:37 plinnell Note Added: 0006258
2005-08-28 23:17 plinnell Note Added: 0006267
2005-08-28 23:17 plinnell Status resolved => closed
2006-05-15 18:16 christoph_s Relationship added child of 0003821