We use the Story Editor a lot because we create small multi-page documents with enchained text-boxes. Following all those boxes through a document would make for crazy scrolling and jumping about.
So we like the fact that there is a Story Editor, even in its present form, where we can work on an entire text in one window. I would also call it a text editor because "story" is not "any text" to me but only certain texts. I never had any problems finding the story editor. (Or rather at one time a few years back I just accepted that to find anything in Scribus, one needs to search vigorously once, and then memorize access like memorizing Greek vocabulary.) I love keyboard short-cuts but am constantly working in four languages and in many programs my short-cuts are not working properly (for example because I overlooked that I have another keyboard active). So having visual icons and menu-entries is a good and safe fall-back. Still I find the "new" tool-bar icons (the black-only ones) not nice and not easy to distinguish on a cluttered screen. They look like they are meant to look "sophisticated". But at my work-place I do not want sophisticated, I want clarity and speed of access. I love colour-coded tools, because my brain can access colour very well. I mainly use the story editor to apply or correct the main formatting. Either by applying styles or sometimes applying a direct feature. For all the finer tweaking like kerning I want to look at the page, i.e. the text in its context. So even this one change would make a huge difference for me and our team: Instead of two clicks, bring up the list of styles on the left of the Story Editor on single click or even on mouse-over. Another detail which would help would be to allow selection of several paragraphs with shift-double-click or control-double-click (for non-adjacent), like in Windows Explorer one can select several files at once. We love Scribus. hth Martin -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
