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Context menu item request
Having a context menu item to run EPUB check on EPUB items. I think this would make it easier for non-technical people to use epubcheck.
This also brings up the question if it could also check an unpacked folder with the EPUB.
Thanks for the suggestion @GeorgeKerscher!
I believe however that adding such a context menu item might be out of scope given the current way to distribute EPUBCheck?
As @marisademeglio said in daisy/pipeline-ui#316, adding a context menu item on Windows would require an installer that edit the Windows registry.
This cannot be done in the current way we distribute EPUBCHeck, which is only ZIP containing the Java library and its dependencies.
I'm leaving the issue open; it looks more like a feature that would be handled by a 3d-party distribution than something we want to maintain in the core project.
Also, it is not clear what the command would do: open a terminal window to run the epubcheck command? silently run EPUBCheck and open the text output in the default text editor? create a report file next to the EPUB being validated?
If the command needs to be configured (report format, severity, EPUB version, etc), there would need to be some kind of UI (or configuration file) somewhere to allow that.