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Originally Posted by KevinH
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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I don't see the addition of an 'automation' item on the main menu bar as a major invasive change. On the contrary, the improved functionality makes it worthwhile (for me).
But, if you want to keep it minimalist, could the 'automation' entry be in the Tools dropdown listing? That would also be a logical place to find it and, in my experience, the operations on and by an automation list entry are very similar to what we get for the Saved Searches entry under the Tools menu heading.
Most of the clutter on my Sigils' interfaces comes from the icons display, where I shut down as many Toolbars as I can and decrease their size to prevent them from taking up multiple rows.