Hello,

I think adding a "Select subtitle for current file" item to the View > Subtitles menu would make this feature easier to discover.

Currently, the steps to select a subtitle for a video file are:
1. If the "Playlist" sidebar is not activated, activate it
2. Locate the file in the playlist
3. Right-click on it
4. Click on "Select text subtitle"

Advantage of the current implementation
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The current playlist-centric approach allows to setup a subtitle per file. That's great for multi-file movies. And that's why my request is to _add_ a current-video selector and not to _replace_ it by a selection limited to the current video.

Defects of the current implementation
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- If the user closed the sidebar or selected the "Properties" sidebar, the feature is not accessible (more precisely, it requires one _non-trivial at all_ step : step 1 as described above)
- The current implementation trades usability to a (IMHO) rarely-used feature. To my sense, here is a normal use case: "Joe just downloaded a .srt and wants to load it right now".
He will _never_ right-click on the playlist item (neither did I, until I found it by chance 10 minutes ago, then wondered why this thing was there).
On the contrary, he'll parse the menus and will find the "Subtitles" submenu for sure. Then, depending on the case, he'll find there a list of non-adequate subtitles, or nothing at all.
Most probably, he'll assume that this feature is missing. Finally, he may try to rename the sub to match the name of the video file, or switch to another player.

Ideas needed
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That additional menu item improves the discoverability (does this word exist?) of the current-video feature, but may make the user assume that the "one sub per file in the playlist" doesn't exist.
Since {unnecessary warnings, popups, "did you know" boxes} are bad, can somebody imagine an elegant way to say "hey user, you just added a sub to the current file and that's okay. Still, you might be interested by the one-sub-per-file feature. Here is how you do". Maybe some kind of Transmission-like timer notification ? I'm not sure it's coherent with Totem GUI guidelines.
(http://www.transmissionbt.com/ is a bittorrent client; the notification I am referring to appears when just finishing a download)

Thanks,
Ronan

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