
A man called Martin came up with some excellent proposals for changes but from what I understand, the diehards who do not want to change dismissed the proposals which was very sad indeed. The designers really do need to take a long hard look at the UI. There is so much wasted space it is ridiculous. So much space is wasted using words when icons will do. The biggest failing though is the UI overall. Scribus would do well to assign menus as they are found (as far as possible) from the world class leading InDesign or use similar terminology, for example, when creating multi-column pages, the accurate designation for the space between the columns is gutter, not gap. Or to add padding to a image frame when using text wrap you have to dig into a toolbox for something called counter lines and then expand them, there is no simple option for simply called padding. This lack of intuition is compounded by the fact that things which should belong together are not, for example to edit master pages you would expect it to be on the pages menu, but no, it's on the edit menu. Sure QT is cross platform but its basic widgets are quite ugly in my opinion which leads to an application which appears very dated and un-intuitive. I suspect that much of this is down to the QT framework which it uses. I disagree, it's no more uphill then becoming competent with InDesign, but it really is the user interface (UI) which lets this package down. Some people complain and say, the learning curve is too hard. Features wise it is absolutely loaded, however it is at this time let down by its interface. After having used it on and off for around two years, I finally feel I am ready to give a proper review. People rave about GIMP (photoshop alternative) and InkScape (Illustrator alternative) and the myriad opensource video editors, but it seems when it comes to layout and typesetting that there is only Scribus. I installed Scribus to ascertain what the OpenSource community was providing. For my more professional tasks I have (and continue) to use CS6, so am very familiar with professional software. For years, I have been running Adobe software. In my house I have quite a bit of software, some good, some bad.
