[Scribus] Drawing Shapes

[Gregory Pittman]

I don't know if anyone else has used them much, but the tool for drawing 
little shapes -- arrows, small polygons, and such is quite nice.

Having used it quite a bit for arrows, it seemed that it would be better 
to just have them at a default/settable size, and simply click the 
placement with the mouse. There doesn't seem to be any great advantage 
in "drawing" them (click-drag), since they aren't placed with great 
precision or size, and especially since you can't see the shape itself 
as you're dragging. I found myself uniformly tweaking the size and 
position settings in the Properties tool anyway. Also, since they were 
frequently placed on top of another item, I tended to click-drag off to 
the side of where I actually wanted them to be for fear of messing 
position/dimensions of what was underneath.

Am I making sense with this?

The other thing I was wondering is if there are plans to be able to 
create or import custom shapes to use with this tool. What are these, 
SVGs? Having a custom arrow with a bent stem would have really helped me.

Gregory Pittman