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Originally Posted by retiredbiker
Just to add an opinion--
I'd be neutral on 1 and 3, but would probably never use them.
But changes to Find/Replace could kill the way I work. Find and Replace are attached like Siamese twins when fixing badly coded books or proofing a novel-sized document. When I search for something, I always want to be able to do a replace without further strokes or clicks. And find/replace popping up over the text or code I'm looking at...just no.
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Yes, I agree.
Number 1 has limited usefulness except where it already exists on macOS because of its multi-main window paradigm.
And number 3 is out as it would conflict with existing platform key sequences to close windows and apps.
As for number 2, after the number of revisions gone through to get Find and Replace workable after the last redesign, and the fact that shift works with those same icons to do different more advanced F&R related things, enabling and disabling buttons makes no sense. Nor does making it float and cover CV or moving it, in my opinion.
The fact is some people new to Sigil are used to other layouts for F&R in other apps and then think that approach is "better", but in reality, it is just different. They can not see the over 10+ years of user history and muscle memory that would get lost by these types of changes with little to no benefit to most users.
That is why major ui changes/redesigns are not going to happen unless they truly are needed for Accessibility.
In this thread I was looking more for new general features and tool ideas that would help most users by adding something useful, not just simply changing ui to make a specific user or small set of users happy potentially at the expense of others.
I should have made myself clearer about what I was looking for here. That is my fault.