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Option to translate in the opposite direction?

Open gingerbeardman opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Describe the solution you'd like Mostly I want to translate from Japanese into English. I select text and this is what happens.

Sometimes I want to translate from English into Japanese. It would be cool if I could hold alt and select text to translate this opposite way.

But, what bout Auto Detect? Well, maybe there needs to be a preference for Alternate direction language?

Mockup screenshot Screen shot 2019-08-11 at 17 54 53

gingerbeardman avatar Aug 11 '19 17:08 gingerbeardman

Alt can be used for key combination so it should not be used for swapping language. How about utilizing tool bar item for swapping languages or just changing languages?

uetchy avatar Aug 13 '19 12:08 uetchy

Good point regarding key.

Whatever interface is decided, I would only use it very infrequently and it would need to work on selected text in a way that allows single instant translation (the only interface I use). Currently, toolbar and instant translation are not complimentary?

(I do not use the hotkey or toolbar at all, so I forgot about them)

gingerbeardman avatar Aug 13 '19 12:08 gingerbeardman