[New Feature/UX Issue] "Partially" collapse results from all dictionaries in scan popup

[shahrokh-bahtooei]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I need to use various dictionaries simultaneously for a new word—to use the bests of each dictionary. Although navigating through definitions given by different dictionaries is easy & straight-forward in the main window via clicking over the toolbox Found in Dictionaries:, it's not even possible to navigate in scan popup… In popup, all I can do is to scroll through the whole definitions provided by my primary dictionaries to be able to reach the ones my next dictionaries offer.

Good user experience in main window:

Inefficient user experience in scan popup:

I think these icons would be used so frequently if they served the navigation purpose, not enabling/disabling actions which could have been done easily enough just in main window. Now that the user has to scroll down through the extensive definitions to read just as desired from each dictionary, there is no summary definition for each dictionary either… The definitions for each dictionary are either collapsed completely (0) or expanded totally (1). There's no state in between…

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be enormously helpful if dictionary sections were partially collapsed to show data limited to a definite number of characters, words, or lines in scan popup… That way, the user could scroll easily to the bottom and expand as required.

This is how it's done by look-up in macOS Dictionary.app:

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatively, dictionary icons only in scan popup can be reevaluated and redesigned to be used for navigation, instead of infrequently enabling or disabling certain dictionaries.

Additional context
It will be even more handy if both approaches are adopted.

[xiaoyifang]

use right-context menu

[xiaoyifang]

Alternatively, dictionary icons only in scan popup can be reevaluated and redesigned to be used for navigation, instead of infrequently enabling or disabling certain dictionaries.

This is a good idea ,and will leave for future discusion

[xiaoyifang]

if dictionary sections were partially collapsed to show data limited to a definite number of characters,

[shahrokh-bahtooei]

if dictionary sections were partially collapsed to show data limited to a definite number of characters,

Unfortunately, this feature doesn't partially collapse that long dictionary data; in fact, it collapses it completely so that nothing will be displayed for the entry in that dictionary. It's almost like turning that dictionary temporarily off.

What I mean is allowing users to see a certain number of symbols that each definition begins with—somewhat like what Apple's Dictionary.app provides in Look Up mode, the screenshot of which was attached earlier in the issue. That way, a user can have an overall view of what each dictionary offers for the word—e.g. phonetic transcription / 1st definition—and quickly grasp the essences about each word from various aspects by different kinds of dictionaries. This makes scrolling in the Scan mode more efficient and more practical.

Perhaps, this built-in Collapse articles more than feature can be redesigned to display the beginning text and filter the remaining text after that input number of symbols and show it on demand with a click then.