[Scribus] tools

[Peter Linnell]

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 14:01, Johannes Wilm wrote:
> On Sunday 25 May 2003 13:29, Franz Schmid wrote:
> > Johannes Wilm wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > is there any particular reason that the tools can't just be snapped onto
> > > the left or right border so that they don't take up space for the header?
> > > (I don't know the technical term)
> > > --
> >
> > There is no technical reason for that behaviour, more a aesthetic one, they
> > simply look ugly in my opinion when snapped onto the left or right border.
> 
> 
> Can't they be snap-on snap-off-able as the style-bar in kword? That way those 
> that want it in another window will get that (without it taking quite as much 
> space for the header-part) and others can have it snapped on so that it 
> doesn't take quite as much screen space.
> 
> Johannes Wilm

You mean like this:
http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/screen/toolbar1.png

This has been possible since Scribus 0.4 or so. With the MDI interface
since 0.9.3, it is more practicle to have the tool bars float instead of
snapping to a fixed place.. IMO

Regards,
Peter 
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Peter Linnell <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com>