Suggestions for Sigil Improvements or New Features

[KevinH]

If we add a rename and edit button to the Manage Automation Dialog should we then remove the Edit submenu completely leaving just the Run menu?

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

I finaly can build it.
The change are realy good, realy fresh. Inside the Manage Automation dialog I will add a button "edit" and "rename", but detail.
Like philja, the automation entry in the menu bar is small and discret, and only have 3 icons for favorites automations is more than enough for me.
I have great hope and eagerly awaiting this feature to be approved. I love the automation feature, but being limited to three realy kill the feature for me. Is too short. I use several automations, and to overcome Sigil's limitations, I had to create plugins for the "add more of them".

I understand your concerns about "overkill" and "enshitification," but insofar as the automations is already a feature in Sigil, make it ala plugins is more a "tweark" of existing one, rather that creating a new ex-nihilo.
On that, I agree that Sigil is realy complet, and realy the limite of automation is my only point to raise.

[philja]

Originally Posted by KevinH

If we add a rename and edit button to the Manage Automation Dialog should we then remove the Edit submenu completely leaving just the Run menu?

Bravo, un_pogaz! Yes, that sounds like a reasonable simplification.

[KevinH]

Yes, quite a large simplification as it removes an entire dynamic menu and its entries as well as removes 3 interface routines in a quite large and already crowded MainWindow.cpp.

So I just added support for a rename and edit buttons to the ManageAutomation dialog and moved all editing to that Dialog.

I think that is a nice compromise.

I have just pushed these changes to my personal Sigil repo (see earlier link).
So if you build your own, please feel free.

That said, I think the existing betas are close enough to get a feel for this feature and so that users can evaluate it and comment.

So far, I have heard only positive feedback for this feature and no one (but me!) has expressed any reservations.

So if you have an opinion one way or the other and want to be heard, please add to this thread.

[DiapDealer]

I've not tried it yet. But then I don't really utilize Automations anyway. I would really like to hear from users other than the few who were pushing for the feature in the first place. Major overhauls to Sigil's codebase for the satisfaction of a handful of people doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy if I'm honest. If it could be accomplished with a tweak here or there, that would be one thing. I'd sure feel better about it if people who never really gave something like this much thought started warming up to the notion. But there seems to be a bit of an echo chamber happening so far. **shrug**