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A translation app for GNOME.
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[Feature Request] Add search prefix to trigger translation #364

Open Tommimon opened 6 months ago

Tommimon commented 6 months ago

Translating directly in gnome search is a powerful option but many people could be concerned about every desktop search being sent to the translation provider.

It would be nice to have a keyword to trigger translation on the following text, as many launcher translation extensions do.

So for example, if we use tr prefix:

What are your thoughts on introducing this option?

mufeedali commented 6 months ago

I like the idea but maybe some would like the convenience of just typing the query, especially if they're using something like our LibreTranslate instance for example and not a proprietary solution. So it would probably have to be an option

@rafaelmardojai what do you think?