Under Community Review

Make SDLXLIFF Toolkit separate application again

PLEASE make the SDLXLIFF Tookit a separate application again.

The way it's "integrated" in Studio 2017 is really extremely terrible to use. In fact it's pretty useless :(

Evzen Polenka

  • Hi Evzen, it was only "fixed" because we tried to make all the apps we use sdlplugins where possible.  This is because it's going to be easier to manage them once we integrate the appstore with the product.  I know what you mean though and in many ways I also preferred it as a separate application.  I'll talk to the team and see whether we can all agree to make it available as a standalone install as well as a plugin.

    I do use it in full view as I moved it into the files view as a wider pane (not floating) and have a few others that are better in a wider view there too (projectTerms, SDLXLIFF Compare for example).  But I can see your point.

    This is the appstore team though and not core development so "fixing real bugs" doesn't really come into the equation!

  • Why screenshots?! Don't you see the problem? It's "integrated" in the naaaaarow information pane with the analysis stats, confirmation stats, etc.... i.e. its GUI cannot be reasonably used.

    Yes, I know I can undock the pane, but I DON' WANT to undock the ENTIRE PANE (i.e. including all other tabs) just because someone had a bright idea to integrate big GUI window into this narow pane... I want to use ONLY THE TOOLKIT in a normal window. And NO, I don't want to close the other tabs of the pane to make it "look like a normal window"...

    Try to load ~100 files in it and then use it in the naaaarow pane... :(

    Can you list the reasons why exactly do you believe the integration makes it any better than before (i.e. separate application) and the exact usability and UX advantages it brings?

    The good old "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" proverb is still valid. And there was aboslutely nothing wrong with the toolkit... until you guys "fixed" it. I wish you invested the effort into fixing some real bugs instead.

  • Hi  - can you please give us more details on why you consider it being useless? What are you trying to do and what does not work? Please include screenshots if needed and/or detailed steps so we can understand very well the problem.  Thank you, Adrian