Shortcuts for Styles and Shortcut-Mode

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AdmFubar

On keyboard shortcuts, is anyone having issues with scribus not switching to another set of keyboard shortcuts? it always defaults to iCalamus on startup on my system.
Using Scribus1.6.1, 1.7.0 openSUSE 15.6
Advanced hobbyist

joseb

Hello everyone,

First of all, congratulations to the Scribus team for Style Search (Shift+ESC) and Action Search (Ctrl+/). They are a great success and I think they can be easier to use than keyboard shortcuts (for most users).

IMPROVEMENTS PROPOSED IN THE SCRIBUS FORUM
I've been reading messages about:
- Speed in workflow.
- Quick application of styles (or other actions).
- Keyboard shortcuts for paragraph or character styles.
- Contextual toolbars
- Quick Access bar.


REFERENCES FOR INSPIRATION
In this message, I would like to open a discussion on how to improve workflow speed, but imagining that Scribus takes inspiration from programs that are not Desktop Publishing (DTP).

It would be possible to imagine that the style finder or action finder could end up being something like:
- Popup palette in KRITA.
- Mouse Gestures in ARES COMMANDER.
- Pie menus in BLENDER.






SOME PROPOSALS
I really like Style Search (Shift-ESC), but for inexperienced users it can be difficult to remember the paragraph styles they have created.

Could Style Search (Shift+ESC) display a list of paragraph styles (a few at a time, with scrolling if there are many)?


Could it become a floating window similar to the BLENDER Pie Menu and display several lists? It could even be expanded over time to display more things: a list of paragraph styles, another list of character styles, the clear style formatting icon, the special characters icon, and another list of Scribus special characters (page number, total number of pages, etc.).


These proposals are not demands... Sometimes I get the impression that people always try to imitate other DTP programs. Perhaps it would be easier to reimagine the tools from other programs, but adapted to Scribus.