On Tuesday 14 February 2006 17:30, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > I can think of two ways to make the situation clearer. The first would be > > to offer one dialog in which the user has the choice between applying the > > settings in general or only to the current document. The second is to > > place the document setup under preferences and give both items similar > > names, e. g. "scribus general setup" and "document setup". It would also > > be more consistent with many other apps to have both of them under > > "extras". > > > > I also found another issue: "baseline settings" are in "guides", while I > > was expecting them in the "typography" dialog. I don't know what others > > think about it, though. > > Allow me to suggest that all preferences and settings go in a single, > tabbed panel under Edit->Preferences. A number of applications have > preferences under Edit (which does make sense when we think about it), and > putting everything that is user configurable in one place removes all > confusion. > > Now, given the above, it would also make sense to have > Edit->Preferences->General and ->This document. Some preferences have a > broader focus than do others so separating them this way would help.
How many layers do you want tho... this is too many imo. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060214/e562b54a/attachment.pgp
