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jimmejardine / qiqqa-open-source

The open-sourced version of the award-winning Qiqqa research management tool for Windows
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Feature request: Word/text translation in "Select text" mode #287

Open NicolaBlasuttigh opened 3 years ago

NicolaBlasuttigh commented 3 years ago

Hi! It could be very nice to have an extra option in the right-click menu (Select text mode) with "Translate from XX to YY" to translate the selected word/text (or a key combination after selecting the text). A pop-up small-window would be extremely useful! (A redirect to the Qiqqa web-browser can be also good...).

I don't know how much can be difficult to "detect" the XX language and choose a default language YY as target (or choose both languages in the preferences).

Just some ideas..

Thanks!

GerHobbelt commented 3 years ago

Nice idea; a bit like an in-built QTranslate I suppose. 🤔 I like it! 👍 (I have some Chinese documents waiting in a queue for a permanent translation before filing them as my Mandarin is nil. 😓 Did a quick Google Translate and save-to-text-file to check if they contained anywhere near the material that I was expecting, but this could be done in a more structured way.)

This, however, will have to wait a bit as there's a bunch of troublesome issues I have to tackle first. 😉