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KevinH · 10-09-2025, 08:49 AM

Also, even if you are not a heavy user of automation, we need to hear your input on this proposed change.

As I said earlier, it is major/invasive change to Sigil's user interface, so I really do not want to go ahead with it if its presence is going to turn off some/many users. The Sigil user interface is getting huge. That is okay for a professional tool but does limit is appeal for many non-professional users.

All feedback welcome.

Personally ... I believe both "overkill" and "enshitification" are real and can happen incrementally and inadvertently even to open source projects. It is just something we must guard against. And Sigil can really only have a limited number of main menus in its ui and stay reasonable. If Automation is one of them that people want, I am okay with it. But only if it is truly useful like "CheckPoints", and "Plugins" were.

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KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,441 Karma: 6733960 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Also, even if you are not a heavy user of automation, we need to hear your input on this proposed change. As I said earlier, it is major/invasive change to Sigil's user interface, so I really do not want to go ahead with it if its presence is going to turn off some/many users. The Sigil user interface is getting huge. That is okay for a professional tool but does limit is appeal for many non-professional users. All feedback welcome. Personally ... I believe both "overkill" and "enshitification" are real and can happen incrementally and inadvertently even to open source projects. It is just something we must guard against. And Sigil can really only have a limited number of main menus in its ui and stay reasonable. If Automation is one of them that people want, I am okay with it. But only if it is truly useful like "CheckPoints", and "Plugins" were. Last edited by KevinH; 10-09-2025 at 08:57 AM.