nice!
Improve the snapping tool to snap to nearest object to the mouse
can you say more about it?
what do you think about the idea of "removing" the current "snap to item" mode and replace it with an "on demand" snapping?
instead of turning the snapping on and off, one could press the shift key while dragging to temporarily turning the snapping on.
harder to discover, but in my workflow i prefer to rely on the guides for snapping.
the snapping to items tends to snap too much and i only notice that i could used it, while i'm already dragging an item...
i think i've already made a patch for that... but i'm not sure that i have submitted it...
improve the right click drag copy to show the object as the user drags
as you might have read in the bug tracker, i would rather see this "feature" to be removed...
... i'm still looking for somebody explaining me, why this way of copying an item is useful...
in my eyes it is hard to discover, awkward to perform, and needs more clicks than the alternatives...
the only reason i can think of, is to perform the task with the mouse only. practical for a one handed person, but:
- there is not much you can do with scribus, without touching the keyboard.
- the strength of scribus seems to be in having one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse.
if scribus should have something in that direction, i would like to have the drag+space for multiple copies like in inkscape. (i still prefer the ctrl-d + mouse or keyboard move... but i see why this feature is useful for other workflows / persons)
fix the alternate selection modes (shift + alt + ctrl)
a greedy selection mode has been added recently (press the alt key).
what do you plan to fix?
improve resizing modes (shift + ctl + alt)
in which "direction"?
line spacing to have an option for 1.0x a values a multiplier of the font size
i would not add a new mode for that.
on the one side, it might be possible to enhance the current "automatic linespacing" to have a 1.0 value. setting the value to 1.5 would give you a multiplier.
but, in my experience, for DTP, the automatic linespacing should be sparely used, the baseline and fixed linespacing being the preferred ones.
the automatic linespacing can be handy from time to time, but it's always a feature that "promotes" bad layouts.
i must admit that i have sometimes missed the 1 1/2 times setting, but the workaround is simple enough and the end result is then better...
mixed feelings here...
all this having being said: nice to see that you want to improve scribus!