Suggestions for Sigil Improvements or New Features

[DiapDealer]

Are those alt+F1-5 shortcuts limited to that particular menu? I'm trying to figure out if expanding from 5 to 9 would affect users who may have already made use of alt+F6-9 for other purposes in Sigil.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Are those alt+F1-5 shortcuts limited to that particular menu? I'm trying to figure out if expanding from 5 to 9 would affect users who may have already made use of alt+F6-9 for other purposes in Sigil.

It's not Alt+F1, Alt+F2… +F5

Its Alt+F to open the File drop down menu and then 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 - two key strokes - i.e. Alt+F,3 opens the third title.

BR

[DiapDealer]

Got it.

[theducks]

Once again it amazes me on how many different ways our users use Sigil (and Calibre).
I some times open a Calibre viewer (or content server page) for reference or a simple copy and paste into Sigil.

Getting the results we want, is our goal.
Sometimes MR members have a more efficient way (or not). These forums allow exposure to how other do e-book edit tasks. That allows CHOICES

[DiapDealer]

For the record: the code to have both the HeadingChange and CaseChange QToolButtons remember their last used action has been pushed to GitHub. It will be included in the next release (and is available for those who compile their own Sigil versions).

[bissjoe]

This is a minor feature, but it would ease working with Sigil for me. Basically, it would be the possibility (via an option) to hide ".xhtml" and maybe any other file extension in the Book Browser. Hovering over a file would show the full name with the extension in the tooltip, though.
Having the file extensions displayed in the Book Browser make it harder for me to read the actual important part of the name. It's like a clutter because it does not really add new information (it's the same text string ".xhtml" repeated over and over again).

[philja]

Would it be possible for the Mac versions of Sigil to show Mac keyboard shortcuts in the Preferences window?

When I'm using the MacBook, at present all shortcuts show Ctrl, Alt and the Ctrl is not the Mac control key.

The current display of shortcuts is misleading and unusable as presented.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by philja

The current display of shortcuts is misleading and unusable as presented.

"Unusable" might be a bit exaggerated, don't you think? Countless people have managed to use (and customize) Sigil keyboard shortcuts on macOS for many years.

[KevinH]

And it is explained why Qt decided to make that change for Mac users (see the user guide) so that common shortcut key sequences exist and are usable cross platform (ie think copy and paste so that Command+C works as Ctrl+C, etc). It has been that way since the beginning of Sigil and will not change. Sigil is a cross platform app not just a Mac app.

Sigil will ignore Mac-only nonsense like constantly changing icons and shortcuts and other poor choices early Apple designers made to standardize to cross-platform code with the fewest ifdefs possible.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by bissjoe

This is a minor feature, but it would ease working with Sigil for me. Basically, it would be the possibility (via an option) to hide ".xhtml" and maybe any other file extension in the Book Browser. Hovering over a file would show the full name with the extension in the tooltip, though.
Having the file extensions displayed in the Book Browser make it harder for me to read the actual important part of the name. It's like a clutter because it does not really add new information (it's the same text string ".xhtml" repeated over and over again).

Sorry. No. See the answer to your duplicate post in its own thread.