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Question for input (outside current beta process!) on Studio editor behaviour

Hi all,

I have a quick question on how you use the Editor in Studio. We recently (re-)discovered the behaviour that you always have a lag of approx. 1 second when using the mouse to click in a segment other than the currently active one. We were now wondering if that is still required in this day and age, or if we could change it to be instantaneous in a future release.

A bit of background: originally, we thought that a small lag might be useful to allow the user e.g. do a double click or drag/select text without the segment getting active. This would then e.g. allow you to stay in the current segment as active but e.g. quickly copy/paste content from another target segment and paste it in the active one, without the other segment to get active, perform lookups etc.

In a recent experiment, I was looking at a build where the lag was no longer present - and I thought that this made the Editor feel 'snappier' when navigating with mouse clicks. But I was wondering if we can make the change just like this or if there are use cases where our user community would feel that they would still need that lag for your use cases.

I hope the question is clear enough - and am looking forward to your feedback and input!

Thanks

Daniel

Daniel Brockmann
Team Trados @ RWS

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  • Hi Daniel,

    I think this would vary based on users and on the way they work.
    I know that some (most?) translators basically never use the mouse, but almost only the keyboard (and shortcuts).
    I still use the mouse in Studio, and as you said having a delay of 1 second is useful to copy/paste text and keep the current segment active. On the other hand, having a snappier Editor experience sounds thrilling.
    Would it be possible to be able to adjust such mouse lag in the program settings? This way, users could customise such behaviour according to their needs. If not in a public version, at least in a future beta, so that we could see the difference in action during our daily work.

    Thanks and regards,
    Marco
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  • Hi Daniel,

    I think this would vary based on users and on the way they work.
    I know that some (most?) translators basically never use the mouse, but almost only the keyboard (and shortcuts).
    I still use the mouse in Studio, and as you said having a delay of 1 second is useful to copy/paste text and keep the current segment active. On the other hand, having a snappier Editor experience sounds thrilling.
    Would it be possible to be able to adjust such mouse lag in the program settings? This way, users could customise such behaviour according to their needs. If not in a public version, at least in a future beta, so that we could see the difference in action during our daily work.

    Thanks and regards,
    Marco
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