Proposal of a more intuitive interface for subtitle management.
Posted: 26 Dec 2019 13:01
Proposal of a more intuitive interface for subtitle management.
Good morning, everybody,
I'm new on the forum, I just registered.
I'm a long time VLC user, I'm very satisfied with it and I thank the whole community that works on its development and improvement.
Nevertheless, there is something I don't find very practical: it's the subtitles management, the way to set them up seems a bit austere and complicated.
At the moment when you change values you don't see the result directly, it's a bit frustrating. I have to quit the software and restart to see the result.
I would find it easier for the users if they could have a preview of the subtitles when changing settings. At the moment I don't find that very intuitive unfortunately.
I quickly made a small mock-up (not exhaustive), to illustrate my point:
The idea would be to have an interface that reminds a bit of a word editor software, as well as a miniature visual of the result produced by our parameters.
We could also imagine that the user could choose from a drop-down list of subtitle styles already set up (for example for people with visual disabilities, strong contrasts or with a typography designed for dyslexic people ).
Even better, it would be great if we could edit a small CSS file (for people who know) and share our styles with the VLC community.
PS:
I just want to make a small remark that I hope will be constructive:
I've had a bit of trouble finding a way to contribute as a designer.
I saw on your website that there are a lot of links for developers (which seems normal to me because it's a big part of the work), but I find it regrettable that there are no links for designers or writers.
Maybe this will help people like me to quickly find the way to contribute to this wonderful project.
Good morning, everybody,
I'm new on the forum, I just registered.
I'm a long time VLC user, I'm very satisfied with it and I thank the whole community that works on its development and improvement.
Nevertheless, there is something I don't find very practical: it's the subtitles management, the way to set them up seems a bit austere and complicated.
At the moment when you change values you don't see the result directly, it's a bit frustrating. I have to quit the software and restart to see the result.
I would find it easier for the users if they could have a preview of the subtitles when changing settings. At the moment I don't find that very intuitive unfortunately.
I quickly made a small mock-up (not exhaustive), to illustrate my point:
The idea would be to have an interface that reminds a bit of a word editor software, as well as a miniature visual of the result produced by our parameters.
We could also imagine that the user could choose from a drop-down list of subtitle styles already set up (for example for people with visual disabilities, strong contrasts or with a typography designed for dyslexic people ).
Even better, it would be great if we could edit a small CSS file (for people who know) and share our styles with the VLC community.
PS:
I just want to make a small remark that I hope will be constructive:
I've had a bit of trouble finding a way to contribute as a designer.
I saw on your website that there are a lot of links for developers (which seems normal to me because it's a big part of the work), but I find it regrettable that there are no links for designers or writers.
Maybe this will help people like me to quickly find the way to contribute to this wonderful project.