Subtitleedit: GUI Tweak?

[STaRDoGG]

Just an idea; see how there is a "import dump" in the menu (red rectangle)?

How about creating an "import" menu item there, and then placing all of those "import" commands into it as subitems? The same way the "Export" item does (orange rectangle).

That would make the menu less cluttered (for regular users) and slightly less overwhelming (for new users).

[OmrSi]

@niksedk Should I work on this?

[niksedk]

Yes please 👍
Perhaps "Import subtitle from matroska file..." should be "Import subtitle from video file..." (remove DivX/avi import if it works with "video file") and should show file types mkv/mp4/ts/m2ts/mpeg/avi.

[STaRDoGG]

I was poking around in the source and noticed that the menu text, is hard coded in, as well as the same strings in a language.cs file; is there a specific tool you used to edit them in both at once?

As a mildly OCD, shallow, UX guy I see a ton of things I want to play around with gussying up, lol.

[niksedk]

I'm not really sure what you mean exactly... texts exist in the designer.cs file + in the language.cs file + in the language master xml file.
The language master xml is generated from the language.cs file.

[STaRDoGG]

@niksedk for example, lets say I wanted to change the text for the "open" menu item to "open folder"; it looks like if I wanted to do that I'd have to hand edit the menu item itself + the language.cs; if I only edited the menu item but left the one in the language.cs, the one in the language.cs would overwrite the one on the menu when it's run.

I was wondering if there's a single place to edit it so it edits all the proper places at the same time?

[niksedk]

Language.cs is the place to fix English texts. For other languages, the language xml files are used.

The designer.cs files are only for the Winforms UI designer inside Visual Studio.