[Scribus] Usability needs attention -- time for a feature moratorium?

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer
Fri Feb 1 16:54:34 CET 2008


Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 12:56:14 schrieb JLuc:
> Magyar B?lint a ?crit :
> > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:54 +0100, JLuc wrote:
> >> Magyar B?lint a ?crit :
> >>> S&R works great in the Story Editor.
> >>
> >> here, i meant "s&r" of specifically styled items,
> >> the style being part of the search expression.
> >
> > That works as intended. Have you even checked?
>
> Please trust me as a user
> as I trusted scribus as a usable tool
> while trying it during 2 days.
>
> However, as I said, that was about 4 month ago
> and i might not remember exactly.
>
> Following your mail, I "even" checked quickly with the new release,
> and ok, the s&r is ok with character style definition, great,
> but it seems there is no way to define named character style in scribus
> as it is with paragraphs, or at least to use them in the s&r.
>
> Beside, it happens i tried to replace with webdings and wingdings char,
> and the displayed char appears allways a thick square instead of
> the awaited character.
> Beside, that squarelooking character behave as a black hole :
> when typing next to it, characters dont appear, as swallowed by it.
> That is quite unusual as usability behaviour.
> Have i done something wrong ?

Yes, you are obiously using 1.3.4, which is a development version and not 
declared stable. Use 1.3.3.11 instead.

HTH

Christoph





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