0010303: keyboard modifiers to change settings in PP, as frame dimensions

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0010303	Scribus	Usability	public	2011-10-04 08:23	2016-04-19 19:58

Reporter	JLuc	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	all
Product Version	1.4.0svn

Summary	0010303: keyboard modifiers to change settings in PP, as frame dimensions
Description	Having a frame selected, the PP XYZ pane enables to change the dimensions either in typing numbers or using + and - little buttons. Each click makes the dimension 1 full centimeter bigger or smaller. Proposition : enabling the use of CTRL and SHIFT keyboard modifiers exactly in the same way as it goes so as to move a frame : - SHIFT + click would change dimension by 1 mmm - CTRL + SHIFT + click would change dimension by 1/10 of a mm - CTRL + click would change dimension by 10 cm This behavior could be ported to all PP controls having these little up & down buttons : - font size, space betwen lines (now : 1 unit) - column and margins (now : 1 unit) - text / advanced functions (now : +- 1%) - color opacity (now : +- 10%)
Additional Information	Sizing a frame precisely with mouse moves require to zoom a lot so as to be precise. The proposed feature would easyen the precise sizing of frames in a way very similar to the moving of a frame. Having identical effects for these modifiers on all these UI controls would make it easy tp learn.
Tags	shortcuts

Patch

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-10-04 08:23	JLuc	New Issue
2011-10-04 12:04	jghali	Relationship added	has duplicate 0010296
2013-05-12 04:30	smaskell	Note Added: 0030146
2014-09-12 22:48	Kunda	Relationship added	related to 0010503
2016-04-19 19:58	Kunda	Tag Attached: shortcuts

has duplicate	0010296	closed	jghali	arrows in Properties should work with shift, ctrl and ctrl+shift shortcuts too
related to	0010503	new		key short cuts for nudging frames don't match.

smaskell 2013-05-12 04:30 reporter ~0030146	Not sure if this is the same issue but using the Control and Shift with Up/Down Arrow keys to change values in various fields worked fine in 1.3.3.14 but is broken badly in 1.4.2. It seems to work to move an object around the page but none of the other property fields behave correctly.