Keyboard shortcuts

Scribus keyboard shortcuts

 * Should be similar to shortcuts used in Inkscape / the Gimp
 * There are many actions for which it's not possible to assign a shortcut in Scribus, eg:

Replacement shortcut sets
Scribus 1.3 has the ability to load and save custom shortcut sets in xml files, so if someone's used to eg. Quark they can just load a Quark-like shortcut set. Hopefully this should mitigate the initial disorientation involved in switching to a new DTP prog.

I've put a couple of shortcuts xml files here to start the bowl rolling.


 * The default Scribus shortcuts should probably be included in the other keysets unless those shortcuts are assigned to something else
 * Real world testing in 1.3 to see what I've messed up
 * Identify important functions for which it's not currently possible to assign shortcuts in Scribus, eg. Edit text, Zoom in / out
 * More shortcut sets, eg. Indesign, MS Publisher,  Serif PagePlus, Gimp, Inkscape (Actually Scribus should probably aim to have common shortcuts with Gimp / Inkscape as a default).

Quark 5 shortcuts are listed in this pdf. Anyone fancy hacking them out or retyping them all? :-)

How about user-definable mouse shortcuts, eg. triple-click text selects paragraph like in Word for example?
 * Cbradney tells me this is difficult / unlikely, but the 1.3 roadmap includes work on mouse text selection

--Joeboy 01:29, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)