FrameXX
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I recently contributed on MacroDroid Translation and as I translated I became more and more confident and I found that there are some things in original English translation that could be done better. Here are my thoughts.
MacroDroid Variable Change
MacroDroid Variable
For some reason variable trigger and variable constraint have still word "MacroDroid" inside them. Name "MacroDroid Variables" was already deprecated from global variables screen and even variable action doesn't contain word "MacroDroid" inside. Plus this block is already contained in section named "MacroDroid Specific", so I think it would make it more clean and easy to use just Variable Change and Variable.
Keyboard - Set Default
Calendar - Add Event
I see no "Wallpaper - Set" or "MacroDroid Log - Open" so why is this a thing? Why not just use "Set Default Keyboard" and "Add Calendar Event". Shorter and simpler yet same meaning.
Triggers, Actions and Constraints Settings
And look what we have there. There's a header saying "Trigger Options" and then list of triggers all having word "Trigger" next to them. Not all thought. Some of them doesn't have word trigger next to them which makes it even worse.
What about using for these names same strings and names that are used in actual blocks when building macros? It could look terrible in settings, but propably better than this and also would be easyer for users to recognize which trigger is which, if they would have same name there.
MacroDroid Variable Change
MacroDroid Variable
For some reason variable trigger and variable constraint have still word "MacroDroid" inside them. Name "MacroDroid Variables" was already deprecated from global variables screen and even variable action doesn't contain word "MacroDroid" inside. Plus this block is already contained in section named "MacroDroid Specific", so I think it would make it more clean and easy to use just Variable Change and Variable.
Keyboard - Set Default
Calendar - Add Event
I see no "Wallpaper - Set" or "MacroDroid Log - Open" so why is this a thing? Why not just use "Set Default Keyboard" and "Add Calendar Event". Shorter and simpler yet same meaning.
Triggers, Actions and Constraints Settings
And look what we have there. There's a header saying "Trigger Options" and then list of triggers all having word "Trigger" next to them. Not all thought. Some of them doesn't have word trigger next to them which makes it even worse.
What about using for these names same strings and names that are used in actual blocks when building macros? It could look terrible in settings, but propably better than this and also would be easyer for users to recognize which trigger is which, if they would have same name there.
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