Make the source of an automatic translation visible

[luebbe]

Currently all automatic translation suggestions are by the user "anonymous".

It would be nice to see if the machine translation was fetched from Weblate, DeepL or any other machine translation source.
For me it would be helpful, because I would generally prefer a phrase that was already translated in Weblate over a phrase that was translated by an external source.

I've only seen "Anonymous" and "new suggestion" up to now. Is there anything else than "new suggestion"?
Would it be possible to add something like "new suggestion (Weblate)" or "new suggestion (DeepL)" to indicate the translation source?

[nijel]

The origin is shown there:

[luebbe]

You're right. Can you guess why I missed this?

looking at the UI there are no automatic suggestions, even though there is one after I click on the button.

And why are there suggestions and automatic suggestions? Wouldn't it be better to have just suggestions and show the source (DeepL, Microsoft, Human contributor, ...) there?

Both suggestions are identical but the UI is different.

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[nijel]

The motivation is to give more visibility to human suggestions - they are something what should be acted on, while the machine suggestions are present everytime.

[luebbe]

I thought so and I perfectly understand the reasoning, but it put (at least) me on a wrong path. To me it is an UI inconsistency, because you have "the same thing" split up into two places. Maybe it's not the same under the hood, but suggestions are suggestions, whether they are automatic or human.

How about a sorted list with the human suggestions always on top?

Crude UI mockup:

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[nijel]

One more reason is that when user suggestions machine translations are usually not needed. And in most setups machine translation suggestions cost money, so it's not desired to load them when not needed.