Indigo UI: Outline Palette

[tim_occ]

Hi all,

I've been thinking about some changes to the outline palette.

In my opinion, the current Outliner is missing some functions that would give the user a better overview of all objects.

New:
- Master pages and document pages are organized into sections
- Each page object shows information about the layer, locking status and visibility in PDF documents
- Visibility and locking status, as well as the object name, can be changed in the Outliner
- The filter filters the list by object types, such as text, images or vector path objects

Any other ideas about what is missing or would be useful?

[bubu]

Nitramr, this is exactly the kind of development Scribus needs. Thank you for keeping it going.

1) The insertion of a "master pages" and "document pages" header is useful for beginners. I remember when I first saw this panel, it was not trivial. OK.
- Just make the children indent smaller so the panel doesn't grow to the right, because there's less space there now.
- Let them have a different icon!
2) Layer color, locking status and visibility: Color: I like that it's so narrow! The print icon is very wide. Both icons should be as narrow as possible.
3) Edit names, toggle visibility and locking status: I like it!
4) Filter settings: Yes, it is useful.
5) I like that the unnecessary "Item" caption in the header has been removed. It was completely unnecessary. Thanks.

I suggest:
- 3 icon buttons (ala Inkscape) to the top (to the right top corner): delete selected items, move selected item up, move selected items down. Its difficult to select items, than right click and select up, and again right click and up, and again...

[a.l.e]

Personally, I feel that with that many icons on the right side.  the list gets busy and there is a risk to reduce its usefulness.

If only the items that do not print or are locked are marked as such, then they would stick out.

On the other side, it's also true that with your proposal, it would be easier to switch the state of multiple items that are listed close to each other.

I wonder a bit what would be most appreciated by the users.

A topic that I think has been discussed in the past, is a button to switch between a page and a document view.

Also, something I stumbled upon, while looking for something completely different:

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=13781

After several years, I'm still convinced that deselecting the current item should not make the view in the outline jump around...
But I understand that it's not trivial to make the behavior obvious in every use case.

I think that it would be useful to create a new ticket and link it to the numerous ones that already exist to have an overview of all the wishes that have already been expressed....