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[Request] Future Improvement Suggestions

Open animetrom opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

First off, congrats on this amazing project! I have a few suggestions, even considering how great it already is.

Improvements:

1- Consider improving the UI, specifically how the settings behave. When I need to create/configure a new button, I have to select text first, and then the options to add/edit appear. It's unproductive. 2- Make the software restart automatically when a button is edited. Every time I do this, it prompts me to restart and closes, but doesn't reopen the software automatically. It would be nice if it did. 3- Maybe scrap suggestion #2 and consider the possibility of real-time updates instead. 4- Offer more theme options, like a true AMOLED dark mode, for example. 5- Fix character issues, like problems with accents (specifically for Brazilian Portuguese). 6- In addition to the hotkey function, it would be cool if a floating icon appeared when text is selected. Clicking the icon would open the button menu for use. 7- Make the software work in conjunction with suggestion #6, meaning, in addition to the floating icon, make the popup that displays the translated text more subtle instead of so aggressive. Something like in the screenshot below.

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For now, these are the suggestions. Thanks again for the excellent project.

animetrom avatar Mar 15 '25 04:03 animetrom

Hello :) Sorry for the delayed reply. Thanks for your solid suggestions :D When I resume development on the Windows/Linux build of Writing Tools in the near future, I'll fix the button-editing annoyance (with auto saves without a restart, ideally) and more as you mentioned.

I'm personally not a fan of controls that appear within the textbox, as I'd like for Writing Tools to completely stay out of the way until you need it haha (a lot of people find the floating Grammarly orb very annoying :P)

theJayTea avatar Apr 04 '25 14:04 theJayTea