[scribus] A Scribus Random Tips window ?

[a.l.e]

good evening!

as said, i think that we can even do better, but it's not easy to do it
right...

> I like this comment. What does 'do it right' look like? (besides what
> you've mentioned before)


imo, "do it right" needs a few power users, teachers and interaction
designers to "sit together" and talk about it.

not being any of them, i still have some ideas...


personally, i can imagine some sort of square panel docked on the
lower right corner, below the properties palette.

one solution would be to put in there some textual hints on how to do
similar tasks as what the user is currently doing. with links to a more
complete documentation.

another, slightly more crazy, idea would be to put there short
screencasts in gif format that show actions that can be done in scribus
(also somehow related to what the user is doing; from a starting point,
through a simple action, and finally getting to a result; not longer
than 10 seconds each)

the panel would not be shown by default and the user can activate
it from the help menu. (or it automatically gets activated if the user
has clicked 10 times on the desktop without performing an action? :-)


one thing that i certainly would suggest to avoid are: long and
technical texts!

ciao
a.l.e

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i have noticed that you have opened the story editor. did you know that
you can double click the text frame to edit it? and that if your
properties palette is visible you even can interactively apply
formattings?