In most applications (e.g., on the Mac, this is even a system-wide function) you select some text or shape, then go to the color palette, and then assign a color to the text or shape by clicking somewhere on the color wheel. That's it.

In Scribus you need to "define" a color before you can assign it.

While this looks more cumbersome than necessary at first sight, it may actually help fight "color proliferation" (having similar but not identical colors in a document).

Still, it should be more intuitive to "define" a color, e.g., with a button "New" in the palette where you choose colors from:

It took me a while to look in other places because I'd have expected to see a "+" or "New" button there.

Most people will want to play interactively with text formatting until it looks good, and once it does, create a style.

Hence, there should be a "+" button next to the "trash" button that is normally inactive but becomes active when text is selected. When clicked, it should ask for a name for the style, and create a style based on the formatting of the currently selected text or text frame.

If the Script Console was turned into palette, it could be neatly docked to the side/bottom without floating around.

In the "Help" menu, there is an entry "Scribus Manual..." which opens "Scribus Help". Please use consistent naming (e.g., rename the menu entry to "Scribus Help...").

It would be great if Script Console would automatically open the last-opened script (per document), so that the user can continue editing the same script that was open when the particular document document was used last time.

The "Properties" and "Text Properties" Palettes should be shown docked on the right hand side of the window by default, rather than the user having to select them from the "Windows" menu first. This would help discoverability, and would be more familiar to new users coming from other applications with similar concepts (e.g., InDesign, Pages).

Looking for this functionality:

Note that this should be applicable to whole text frames and to individual selections of text.

Currently the Script Console is not Python syntax aware (but it does apply text styles to copied&pasted text. It could be much better if it was using e.g. Scintilla for "understanding" Python.

• https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaRelated.html
• https://qscintilla.com/

It would be great if Script Console would have a menu entry or button that would open the Python section of the Scribus Help (jump directly to "Scripter API"), so that the user can go there directly from the Script Console rather than from the Help menu in the main Scribus window.

Coming from other graphics applications, I think Shift is the "traditional" key rather than "Ctrl" for moving objects along straight lines and for proportional resizing. If I remember correctly this has been so since the very early DTP applications such as PageMaker and FreeHand.

Selecting text (here I am using Ctrl-A to select all text) and typing new text should not change the formatting of the text, even if the formatting was applied not to the whole text box but rather just to the text inside it:

Currently objects can snap to guides, but not the other way around.
Being able to snap guides to objects would be helpful, too (e.g., when "reverse-engineering" an imported PDF).