Indigo UI: Canvas Frames and Gestures

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tim_occ

Here are some ideas about the object frame features.

The purple color is just a placeholder color for selected frames, and can still be changed in the preferences.

Do you miss something?

AdmFubar

needs one addition, a handle for rotating the object.
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a.l.e

nice to see this.

like AdmFubar, the first thing i noticed is that there is no way to rotate the items on canvas.
i'm not sure that pressing R should be necessary. but it still might be the best solution for scribus.

the second point, is about the item names. even if they can be disabled, i really wonder what's the use for them.

somehow, i'd like to see a real use case for that, before implementing that widget.
personally, i believe that seeing the name in the outline palette is more than enough.


concerning the tables, i think that we really need to have a workshop on how they should work!*

for the images: do we want to have a button in the middle for loading the image?
for the text frames, it's less straightforward, since one might rather want to start typing...
we could have multiple buttons: lorem ipsum, load text, start typing...
only when it's empty.

LTR will be a challenge. it probably needs to be a document, frame, paragraph and character setting!

finally, being able to edit the bezier nodes "on canvas" would be terrific. on the other side, i'm not sure about all the gradients definition on canvas (but i rarely use them, so i cannot really judge).

* btw, if you're free at the end of may, it would be amazing to meet you at the next LGM:

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/

it's not that far for you : - )

AdmFubar

I think the most use tables would have would be handling speadsheet data. Perhaps getting some assistance from the open document foundation for updating tables in scribus? I'm sure they would be interested in assisting.
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