Comment 4 for bug 171617

Originator: NO

As you say, it's not easy to fit all the stuff into a bar and that's why I
think you shouldn't.
I think a sidepane (like corel but better) would to the job of collecting
the dialogs, and making them a lot easier to access while not being as
confusing as your proposal (I find it rather unorganised in a way).

I've uploaded two images that demonstrate the scribus properties box

http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~dcb/linux/inkscape/sidepane1.png
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~dcb/linux/inkscape/sidepane2.png

As for the font-style bar, I really don't understand this point. Basically
you want just categories, right? But do fonts tell you what category they
are in? If not, how do you know? I don't think people will go sorting their
fonts for inkscape. Other than that I'd make it a two selection step
anyways. You first chose a filter (combobox) for the category and then you
have a font ComboBoxEntry

 __________ _ __________________ _
|all |V| |Arial |V|
 ---------- - ------------------ -
|black |
|sans-serif|
|serif |
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