Make it possible to search the menus

[probonopd]

Could it be made show up as a search box in the menu, like on the Mac?

The Olive application (also Qt-based) has implemented something similar in
olive-editor/olive@952c679

It can be invoked by pressing the / key. Now that's not as discoverable as in the screenshot above but hey it's a start. If you would like to try for yourself, there is an AppImage at https://github.com/olive-editor/olive/releases/ for you to try out.

(Just asking myself whether such functionality could even be put into a Qt plugin so as to be available for all Qt apps at once.)

[aoloe]

here it is:

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-plugin-actionSearch

a couple of things to be sorted out (menu placement and keyboard shortcut), but it works.

i've tried a bit, and to me it looks less useful than the same feature in gimp.
but, for a beginner, it can be a good way for discovering some of the scribus features (sadly, all the goodness in the properties palettes won't be in the list... and that's huge...).

as soon as the two last issues are sorted, i will retab the plugin and upload it to the official bug tracker.

[aoloe]